Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Amazon, 50 New Canton Way, ROBBINSVILLE, NEW JERSEY 08691
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was closing room partitions and caught his finger between the partitions resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was walking in a parking lot when they fell over a yellow plastic parking block to the ground, resulting in a fractured hip that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was pallet building. She stepped into a box trailer to retrieve a go-cart (big plastic bin with wheels) and she slipped on debris that caused her to lose her balance. The employee's right ankle was fractured. She was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee had just retrieved a roll of packing dunnage. The employee tripped while stepping off a pallet, fell to the concrete floor, and suffered a broken right hip.
An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.
An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.
An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 454110)
An employee was walking in a parking lot when they fell over a yellow plastic parking block to the ground, resulting in a fractured hip that required hospitalization and surgery.
On July 22, 2025, at approximately 6:25 PM, an employee was was walking up the stairs to their work station. When the employee was about halfway up the stairs, they dropped their earplugs. The employee turned to pick up the earplugs, lost their balance, and fell approximately 10 feet to the ground below. The employee was hospitalized with head injuries and a laceration.
An employee was wrangling go-carts. She unfolded and secured a cart and distributed it to another employee, then began pulling out another cart. This cart's casters were entangled with those of a third cart, and both came out together. As the third cart cleared the nested stack, it fell onto its side. This pulled the employee closer to it, and her foot was broken under it. She was hospitalized.
On April 4, 2025, an employee was walking on the production floor when he tripped on a box pallet and fell to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured rib.
An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.
An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.