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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors

Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, 6900 Jefferson Metro Parkway, MC CALLA, ALABAMA 35111 on — Fractures, affecting the nonclassifiable.

An employee was pushing a rack of finished parts when a forklift struck the rack. The employee suffered multiple fractures that required surgery.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Sunpro Motorized Awnings and Screens

Two employees were walking through the warehouse behind a forklift that was moving pallets of 30-foot metal bottom bars. When the forklift reversed, the top of the forklift struck a box of metal bottom bars on top of racking, causing the box to fall and strike the two employees. They were both taken to the hospital; one employee was treated and released without being admitted. The other employee was hospitalized with a fractured left orbital bone and an injured right knee.

New Wave Energy Services

The injured employee was spray painting lay flat shipping reels while another employee was picking up the reels with a telehandler after they were painted. The telehandler bumped a reel, causing other reels to fall. The injured employee was caught between the reels, resulting in broken left femur.

CAVO Broadband Communications, LLC

An employee was installing an aerial drop cable across a roadway. The employee was on a ladder positioned against a telephone pole. Cable had been installed on one side of the roadway. The employee was making the connection to the pole on the opposite side of the roadway when a box truck contacted the cable, causing the employee to fall onto the grass of the customer's yard. The employee sustained broken ribs and was hospitalized.

Indorama Ventures Sustainable Recycling, LLC

An employee was performing routine housekeeping duties when a bale of plastic bottles slid off the forks of a forklift that was backing out of a trailer. The bale struck the employee, pushing her into another machine. The employee suffered a fractured rib and punctured lung.

Phoenix Wood Products, LLC.

An employee was using a 4-by-4 to straighten a pack of wood. A forklift nudged the 4-by-4, which caused the employee's right hand to be caught between it and the pack of wood. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Fluor

An employee was working to free a load by grabbing and shaking the live side of a tugger line. Once the load became free and progressed upward, the employee's hand was caught and pulled into a snatch block. The employee's right thumb was broken and lacerated. The employee was hospitalized and required a surgical amputation.

UES Professinoal Solutions, LLC

An employee was operating a drill rig when when their hand got caught between a 1/4-inch steel cable and a drill rod, resulting in the amputation of four fingers.

Elecnor Hawkeye, LLC

An employee was overseeing the operation of a rope being respooled onto the drum of a wire winding machine. He went to remove a piece of wooden reel from the rope. His glove got snagged and his right hand was pulled into the roller, pinching his fingers between the machine's roller and the rope. The middle and index fingers were crushed.

WEST AFFUM DEVELOPMENT CO LLC

An employee was visiting a patient's home to fit them with a wearable cardiac defibrillator. As he was walking from the front door to his car, a large dog broke free from a chain and attacked him. He was bitten on the forearm and fell. The patient was then able to restrain the dog. The employee was hospitalized with severe dog bites and required surgery.

Day & Zimmermann

An employee tripped over a junior I-beam about 4 feet long and 6 inches tall that was installed for circulating water valves and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken right-side rib.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Ampler Pizza II LLC

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

Birdsong Corporation

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

Pilgrims

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.