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

Federal Express Corporation

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Federal Express Corporation, 1260 Rowena, GRAYSLAKE, ILLINOIS 60030 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was cutting a 2x4 on a table saw and amputated the tip of their right thumb.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Table saws

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was moving a large package from a slide when her left arm got caught between the slide (tilt tray) and the package. She was hospitalized with a fractured left arm.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee had been loading packages into a vehicle. While exiting the vehicle, he tripped and fell, fracturing both ankles.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was was unloading packages on airplane cargo while standing on metal grating. He fell onto the grating, resulting in a laceration to his left knee.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was closing a garage door. As the door slid, the employee's right ring finger was caught in one of its wheel tracks. The fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was in a delivery truck bed loading packages. The employee fell from the truck bed between the rear of the truck and the dock. She was hospitalized with bruises and contusions to her back, right hip, and leg.

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Leidy's LLC

An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

Swift Beef Company

An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.

Kitchen Tune-Up

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.

BBCJ LUMBER LLC

An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.

Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc.

An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was moving a large package from a slide when her left arm got caught between the slide (tilt tray) and the package. She was hospitalized with a fractured left arm.

Parsec LLC

An employee was operating a switch truck at a rail yard. He got out of the switch truck to unlock a container that was attached to a unit in front of him. The switch truck rolled and pinned the employee against the container. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis, a ruptured spleen, and a possible spinal cord injury.

Parsec LLC

An employee was sidestepping along the catwalk of a railcar when he lost his balance and fell approximately 4 feet to the ground. The employee's right hip was fractured.

UPS

An employee was working to realign the two top sections of a set of collapsible rollers (trailer-on-flatcar rollers). The rollers suddenly fell into place and pinched her left index fingertip against the lower sections. She suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

Bloom Logistics, Inc.

An employee was delivering a package. A dog bit the employee in the abdominal area, and the employee was hospitalized.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.