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

Recycle Inc., East

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Avulsions, enucleations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Recycle Inc., East, 20A HARMICH RD PO BOX C, SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY 07080 on — Avulsions, enucleations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was clearing an opening on a machine when the blade caused an avulsion of her right middle fingertip.

Hospitalized Fingertip(s) Machinery, unspecified

Recycle Inc., East

An employee fell off a 4-foot ladder.

RECYCLE INC. EAST

An employee was dragging a large plastic container to another trailer when the employee's pant leg became caught on a step, causing the employee to fall and fracture an ankle.

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N. S. Giles Foundations, Inc.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

Weld Mech, Inc.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

Axium Packaging LLC

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

PanTerra Energy

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

Graphic Packaging International

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Shamrock Environmental Corporation

An employee was driving an ATV when it overturned and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured elbow requiring hospitalization and surgery.

EAGLE FORD RECLAMATION CO,LLC

An employee was elevating an auger when the auger shifted. He went to stop the auger from shifting when it struck him, resulting in injuries to his left ankle and pelvic bone.

Sawgrass Sustainable

An employee was training to use an industrial shredding machine. While he was dumping a box, the pulley on a conveyor caught the tongue of his right shoe and pulled his third toe into a pinch point between the conveyor belt and the pulley drive. The employee sustained an amputation to their toe.

Casella Waste Systems, Inc.

An employee was pushing a baler door that weighed about 500 pounds closed. A pair of wire cutters fell between the door and the baler wall. The employee was retrieving the wire cutters when the door closed, crushing the employee's right index finger against the baler wall and causing a partial amputation to the finger.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

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.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

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.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

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.