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

Peller & Laundry Machinery Sales Co, Inc.

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Peller & Laundry Machinery Sales Co, Inc., 10355 W. State Highway 29, LIBERTY HILL, TEXAS 78642 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was working at an automated towel facility. As the employee was performing maintenance on a small piece towel folder, his right hand was crushed in a moving drive chain, resulting in amputation of his little finger.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.

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.

Lift Solutions Inc.

Two employees were working on a forklift with its mast in the air when a chain came loose and the carriage fell down on them. The injured employee was hospitalized with a fractured left ankle, a laceration on the left side of their forehead, and a fractured L1 vertebra.

Core & Main LP

An employee was operating a machine used to roll erosion control fabric. Her left hand was caught and crushed in the rollers. She was hospitalized.

Fire Equipment Inc

An employee was using a pipe grooving machine to groove an 8-inch pipe. His gloved index finger on his left hand was caught between the groover and the pipe, crushing the top part of his finger. The employee's left index finger was partially amputated.

Pennant Ingredients Inc.

An employee was cutting electrical wires when an arc flash occurred, resulting in third-degree burns to their hand.

BradyPlus

An employee was being trained on operating a powered industrial truck (PIT) with a side-saddle stance. The employee was instructed to move the PIT s joystick back and forward to get a feel for it. The PIT went backward through a dock door that was approximately 3 feet off the ground. The PIT ended up on the employee. The employee was hospitalized with an amputation below the left knee, third-degree burns to lower extremities, and multiple fractures to the lower extremities.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.