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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Pepsi Bottling Group

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Pepsi Bottling Group, 11701 Roosevelt Blvd, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19154 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was clearing a jam on a pre-form wheel. The employee's left hand became stuck between the wheel and a metal piece used to feed material, causing the amputation of the index finger.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Machinery, unspecified

Pepsi Bottling Group

An employee was pulling a truck from a loading dock but could not get enough traction under the tires due to ice. After pulling the truck forward approximately 2 feet, the employee exited the vehicle to retrieve ice melt located in the rear of the trailer. The employee then dropped the bag of ice melt to the ground behind the trailer and was standing at ground level between the trailer and the loading dock. The airbag in the rear tag axle of the trailer engaged, lifting the rear axle up off the ground. The truck rolled backward, pinning him against the building. The employee was hospitalized with multiple pelvic fractures and a crushing injury to the abdomen and lower back, which required multiple surgeries.

PEPSI BOTTLING GROUP

An employee hit a rack with a forklift during training, breaking his leg.

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DGS Import, LLC

An employee was changing a saw blade when the saw machine activated. The employee's left ring and little fingers were amputated.

Millennium Mat Company

An employee was clearing a jam from the label cutting machine when their left middle finger was partially amputated.

Bauer Foundation Corp.

Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.

Guggisberg Cheese, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.

Alsco Inc.

An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, LLC

An employee was delivering beverages when he fell from the truck's liftgate to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured wrist, a dislocated shoulder, and bruised ribs.

The American Bottling Company

An employee was performing maintenance under a van. The van slipped off the jack and struck the employee, who suffered broken ribs in the left upper torso. The employee was hospitalized.

Sqwincher Activity Drink

During scheduled preventative maintenance, an employee was searching for vertical bagger shafts. Upon locating a box thought to contain new shafts, the employee removed two high-powered magnets from bubble wrap. The magnets forcefully attracted to each other and amputated the employee's fingertip.

Buffalo Rock Company

An employee was walking beside a pallet jack while operating it and became pinned between the pallet jack and some pallets. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

CB Manufacturing Company, Inc.

An employee was replenishing product in a warehouse aisle. They collapsed and fell onto their back, striking their head on the concrete and suffering a laceration to the back of their head and injuries requiring hospitalization and brain surgery.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.