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

Joval Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Joval Manufacturing Company, Inc., 120 Iris Avenue, JEFFERSON, LOUISIANA 70121 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was operating a punch press and amputated four fingers on their left hand.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Punch presses

Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Channel Sheet Metal, Inc.

An employee was driving a forklift when its right front wheel dropped off a 6-inch curb. The forklift rolled over and trapped him against the concrete surface. He suffered a broken pelvis, ribs, and collarbone, as well as a collapsed lung.

Blackburn's Fabrication, Inc.

An employee was operating a brake press when the top die broke, causing the bottom die to roll out and onto the employee's legs. Both of the employee's legs were crushed below the knee, and both legs were partially amputated. The employee's left leg was also fractured above the knee.

Mason Road Sheet Metal, Inc.

An employee was performing routine maintenance on a shear machine when the machine's foot pedal was engaged and the blade contacted his right middle finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

Rollex Corporation

An employee was helping to tighten down a metal packaging band for shipping. The metal band broke and struck the employee across their face, cutting their left face/eye area. The employee was hospitalized.

Kemlee Manufacturing Inc.

An employee was cutting plywood on a table saw. They went to retrieve a piece of wood and the saw blade partially amputated a fingertip.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.