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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Wahl Clipper Corporation

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wahl Clipper Corporation, 2900 N. LOCUST STREET, STERLING, ILLINOIS 61081 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was unjamming a blade machine and suffered a finger amputation when it was caught between the pulley and chute.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified

Wahl Clipper Corporation

An employee was operating a horizontal press. As the employee reached for their work badge, the press cycled onto their little finger and amputated a quarter-inch of the tip.

Wahl Clipper Corporation

An employee was on a stepladder by a press, clearing a jam from a conveyor. A robotic arm knocked him from the stepladder to the ground. He struck his head and suffered a broken wrist.

Wahl Clipper Corporation

A maintenance employee was helping move a die that was sitting on a pallet. The die tilted and pinched the employee's right little finger against another die causing a cut that required surgery and hospitalization.

Wahl Clipper Corporation

While he was attempting to clear a jam, an employee's hand slipped into the pneumatic valve, resulting in a fractured thumb.

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DGS Import, LLC

An employee was changing a saw blade when the saw machine activated. The employee's left ring and little fingers were amputated.

Millennium Mat Company

An employee was clearing a jam from the label cutting machine when their left middle finger was partially amputated.

Bauer Foundation Corp.

Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.

Guggisberg Cheese, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.

Alsco Inc.

An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Menk USA, LLC

An employee was removing product (a transformer radiator weighing approximately 2,640 pounds) from the paint room utilizing an overhead drop-crane system. The employee inspected the product in the drop section and started to lower the load. The product fell out of the rigging and hit the ground. It then tipped, pinning the employee against a desk. The employee was hospitalized with collapsed lungs, a dislocated sternum, a head injury requiring staples, and fractures to their ribs and wrists/lower arms.

Vitamix Manufacturing

An employee was retrieving an empty blue bin. When he turned around, he tripped over a skid and fell to the floor, striking his head and sustaining injuries to his hip and foot. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip.

Regal Ware, Inc.

An employee was buffing a part on a buffing machine when their glove was caught by the rotating spindle, resulting in lacerations to their arm.

Diversitech, LLC

An employee was troubleshooting a cutter machine to see why the blade was not spinning. The power button on the machine was pressed and the blade contacted his right little finger, resulting in a laceration and an amputation. The machine was energized at the time of the incident.

Wahl Clipper Corporation

An employee was operating a horizontal press. As the employee reached for their work badge, the press cycled onto their little finger and amputated a quarter-inch of the tip.

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.