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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

International Technical Coatings, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at International Technical Coatings, Inc., 845 East Markison Ave, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43207 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was setting up a fence line machine. A moving part of the machine pinned the employee's knees together at the exit table, breaking the employee's right leg and causing nerve damage.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.

International Technical Coatings, Inc.

An employee was working inside a paint line washer. The employee was walking on a walkway when he slipped and his left leg fell into a wash tank containing 160-degree water. He suffered a third-degree burn from the knee down and was hospitalized, requiring skin graft surgery.

International Technical Coatings, Inc.

An employee was attempting to remove a wire from inside a fence line machine when the machine cycled, trapping the employee's lower right leg. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right tibia and fibula.

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Scout Surface Solutions

Employees were assembling and testing a butterfly valve unit and actuator combo. When the unit was function tested with air, the valve gate closed on an employee's left thumb resulting in a fracture and laceration.

Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation

An employee was doing a daily inspection of the sifter screen on a mixer when the mixer line activated. The armature for the screen struck the employee's right wrist. Their wrist was cut and their hand was fractured.

Maxwell Paper Products Co

An employee was being trained on a machine when a roller came down on their hand, resulting in a fracture and laceration.

Turkey Hill LLC

An employee was doing a dry run during the setup of an ice cream machine. The machine indexed and the filler head amputated the employee's left middle finger above the last knuckle.

Erie Strayer Company

An employee was on a 3-foot ladder guiding cable onto a spool during installation on an overhead door. As the control box was jogged, the employee's hand was caught between the cable and spool, resulting in a wrist and hand fracture.

OKLAHOMA STEEL & WIRE CO. INC.

An employee was driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) carrying a nesting sheave on the back counterweight of the PIT. He was holding the sheave when the PIT struck a pothole in the floor, causing the sheave to roll forward and crush his right index fingertip against the back of the PIT seat frame. The employee's fingertip was amputated, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Certified Slings & Supply

An employee was building slings. They were placing wire rope in a pneumatic vise when their right index finger was caught between the vise and the wire rope, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

Trion Industries, Inc.

On September 15, 2025, an employee was working on an auto-welder when the guard closed on their left ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Bright Coop, Inc

At about 7:15 a.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was using a construction compactor to stabilize the dirt of a dam that had just been built. The dirt gave way underneath the compactor, which tipped on its left side. The employee fell out and was crushed and pinned between the compactor and the dirt. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken sternum and broken ribs on both sides, as well as a laceration to the left leg by the ankle joint.

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

A temporary employee was stripping wire for scrap when the machine crushed their left thumb and little finger.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.