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

Panera Bread

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Panera Bread, 1400 Butterfield Road, DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS 60515 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was cutting bagels with a bagel slicer. The slicer blade amputated the tip of his right ring finger.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Food slicers

Panera Bread

An employee was on a ladder that was on a counter changing a light bulb on the ceiling. As he descended the ladder, he fell sideways with the ladder and struck his head on the floor.

Panera Bread

While making sandwiches, an employee sustained a laceration on her left hand from a knife. The employee was hospitalized.

Panera Bread

After a five-hour shift washing dishes, an employee developed pain, irritation, and extreme reddening in the hands. He was hospitalized.

Panera Bread

An employee was using a spiral slicer. The blade contacted the employee's thumb and amputated the tip.

Panera Bread

An employee was opening the gates to the dumpster area in order to dump materials. The wind blew one of the halves of the metal gate, striking the employee in the face. The employee was hospitalized with face and neck injuries.

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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.

Spudrock LLC

An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.

An employee was walking through the retail store when they tripped over a display rack and fell. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their left shoulder, left elbow, and left wrist.

Bob Evans

An employee was walking toward the dish area when they tripped over a fan cord and fell on the ground. The employee sustained a hip injury.

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

An employee was shocked while turning on a circuit breaker for a dishwasher that needed repair. The employee was hospitalized.

Southland Restaurant Services, LLC

An employee was on a roof servicing a refrigeration system. They were using a ladder to get off the roof when they fell, resulting in a shattered left heel that required hospitalization and surgery.

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.