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

Gere Marie Corporation

Trip over self without fall · Herniated discs

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Gere Marie Corporation, 1275 Ensell Rd., LAKE ZURICH, ILLINOIS 60047 on — Herniated discs, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

An employee tripped while walking the plant floor, but caught himself before falling. The employee sustained a bulging disc in his back and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Select Genetics LLC

An employee was walking when they tripped. They extended their right hand to catch themselves and came in contact with a fan blade, resulting in an amputation to their right middle fingertip.

Varn Wood Products, LLC

An employee had just completed a visual inspection of a dust collection system. As he turned to leave the area, he stumbled and reached out to catch himself. His arm then landed near the outfeed roller conveyor of the planer machine. The employee sustained a laceration to his right forearm with the skin pulled back that required stitches and a skin graft. The employee also sustained a forehead laceration.

United States Postal Service

At 2:25 p.m. on January 24, 2022, an employee lost their footing while walking down steps after delivering mail. The employee's left ankle was broken.

Martin Marietta

An employee was washing his cement truck when his right foot slipped, causing his ankle to roll and resulting in a fractured right fibula and tibia above the ankle.

ATI Ladish LLC.

An employee twisted a knee while walking. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a possible torn ACL/MCL.

Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, LLC

An employee was cleaning mud out of the tracks of a mini excavator while the operator had the machine tilted up off the ground to one side. The tracks moved and the employee's left wrist was caught in the gears. The employee sustained puncture wounds to the wrist and two fractures.

Odyssey Transport & Warehouse LLC

An employee was loading a truck with a forklift. The truck drove away from the dock and the forklift fell between the dock and the truck. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to their head, back, and leg.

Rex Nova Transportation

An employee was moving trucks in the yard. He was working between trucks when a back door swung open and caught their right hand against the frame of another truck. The employee sustained a crushing injury to a finger.

YAMAHA MOTOR MANUFACTURING CORPORATION OF AMERICA

On August 21, 2025, a product development engineer was test riding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on a test track when the ATV flipped over. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle and three fractured ribs.

R.G. Steel Corp.

On June 9, 2025, an employee was walking in the yard and parking area. The employee stepped up from the yard/parking lot onto a patio with an approximate 6" rise at the exterior corner of the main office. After his second foot was planted on the patio surface, he lost his balance and fell backward to the concrete ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip that required surgery and a laceration to the elbow.

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.