105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Genco Industries, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Genco Industries, Inc., 209 Wilmont Dr., WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN 53189 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee's right middle fingertip was amputated while working on a crimping machine.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Bending, crimping machines

Service Wire Company

On December 19, 2023, an employee was setting up a copper wire drawing machine when his left ring finger was pinched between a copper wire and a machine part. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Oriental Trading Company, Inc.

An employee was examining a machine when a part moved up and amputated a fingertip on their left hand.

Fox Packaging

An employee was checking the gusset seal on a machine. He moved to the next cross sealer and the machine activated, causing an amputation to a left-hand finger. The employee was hospitalized.

Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

An employee was evaluating a coiling machine to verify that the blade was present inside it. The machine's weld function was activated, and the machine crushed the employee's fingers, resulting in the amputation of the left middle and ring fingers.

ITW Bedford Wire

An employee's right hand was caught in a wire drawing machine, resulting in amputation.

MINTEQ International, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the floor by a belt conveyor when their right arm contacted the pulley/belting. His arm was pulled into the conveyor assembly, resulting in a fracture to his upper arm.

American Industrial Sales, LLC

A backhoe tractor was moving gravel into a 1-foot-deep trench, and an employee was helping spread the gravel. The trench had been partly filled and the tractor was returning to it with a load of stone when its raised bucket struck the employee, who was standing in the trench. He was hospitalized, having suffered an abdominal injury that caused internal bleeding.

Inductotherm Corp.

An employee was correcting a bend on a brake press when their left middle finger was crushed in the machine.

Pro-Line Water Screen Services Inc

An employee was inside the frame of a traveling water screen that was up on sawhorses. The employee was working to fit a foot-shaft assembly onto the boot section when their left index finger was crushed and fractured between the sprocket and the set collar or chain. The fingertip was amputated.

Lincoln Electric Automation - Coldwater

On July 26, 2025, an employee was assembling a custom-designed automation line. During troubleshooting, he made contact with a photoelectric sensor that was part of the machine s part detection system. This triggered a small pneumatic crimping cylinder, which activated and came down on the tip of his right thumb, resulting in a partial amputation without bone loss.

RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

General Thermodynamics, Inc.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Sargento Foods Inc

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Asher Enterprises, Inc.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

Consolidated Electrical Distributors Inc.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.