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

PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING, INC.

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING, INC., 1411 Ensell Road, LAKE ZURICH, ILLINOIS 60047 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was using a circular saw to cut plywood when the saw kicked back and struck the employee's left finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation behind the nail.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Saws-powered, except chainsaws

PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING INC

An employee was on a scissor lift while marking a ceiling with a tool so they could cut control joints. The counterweight of a boom lift struck the scissor lift as it rotated, knocking the scissor lift over. The employee fell 14 feet. The employee sustained a femoral neck fracture to their left femur, fractures to three vertebrae, a pelvic fracture, a fracture and dislocation to their left wrist, and scrapes to their left elbow and wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

Performance Contracting Inc

An employee was installing insulation while on a ladder. He fell approximately 8 feet to the floor and fractured his right femur.

Performance Contracting, Inc.

An employee was cleaning coal build-up inside pulverizers that were 10 feet 3 inches wide and contained three stationary rollers. After dislodging a piece of coal, the employee exited the pulverizers when the converging floor moved and their left leg was caught between one of the three rollers. The employee suffered injuries including a laceration to the lower left thigh and multiple fractures to the lower left leg. The motor to the converging floor was not in place at the time of the incident.

PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING, INC.

An employee fell from a rolling scaffold to the ground, resulting in a fractured fibula.

Performance Contracting Inc.

An employee was using the hose of a vacuum truck to vacuum up oily water when their hand was sucked into the hose. The employee was hospitalized with a muscle injury.

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Mako Contracting, LLC

An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.

East Penn Manufacturing

An employee was using a utility knife to cut honeycomb paper when the knife amputated their left index fingertip.

Ash Brothers Fireplace and Chimney Co

An employee was cleaning a resident's chimney. While using a drill, the employee's glove became caught in the drill and their finger was fractured.

RPM & Associates Inc

An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Tenaris Hickman

An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.

RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

Olandez Construction

An employee was on a 6-foot ladder, working to nail a 2-by-4 on a hotel carport ceiling. He lost his balance and his muddy boots slipped. He then fell and his foot lodged in the ladder. His foot was broken in two places and he was hospitalized.

GGC Remodeling Inc

An employee was installing a ceiling joist for a residential home when they fell from a framing structure and landed on the ground 8 feet below. The employee's right arm was fractured.

Skyline Quality Services LLC

On September 16, 2025, a employee was moving a dolly with seven drywall sheets. The wheel of the dolly got stuck. The material tipped over and fell onto the employee's left foot, fracturing their tibia.

D Wittig Builders, LLC

An employee was installing 80-foot-long trusses onto a 150-foot by 80-foot post-frame building. The employee worked from the north lift and then on the trusses about 20 feet up to install bracing. While installing diagonal bracing on the top chord, the trusses collapsed, causing the employee to fall approximately 20 feet to the concrete and be struck by the falling trusses. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and a concussion.

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.