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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Sugar Creek Packing Co.

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Sugar Creek Packing Co., 4235 Thunderbird Lane, FAIRFIELD, OHIO 45014 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was unjamming a stuck product from a conveyor belt when his right hand was caught in a sprocket, resulting in a right thumb amputation.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Conveyors-belt

Sugar Creek Packing Co.

An employee was investigating an issue with a sealing machine. The sealing station came down on his right arm causing a puncture wound.

Sugar Creek Packing Co.

An employee was working on top of a 6-foot A-frame ladder when they lost their balance and fell, landing on a machine and fracturing three ribs.

Sugar Creek Packing Co.

An employee was troubleshooting an air handling unit to verify the direction of air flow. The employee began to manually advance the fan by pushing and pulling the drive belt when his right middle and ring fingers became caught in the belt and pulley. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the ring finger and a fractured middle finger.

Sugar Creek Packing Co.

One employee struck another employee in the face with a closed fist causing him to fall to the ground. The injured employee sustained a broken nose and a brain contusion and was hospitalized.

Sugar Creek Packing Co.

An employee was attempting to feed film through a jammed sealing machine when it closed on and lacerated his left middle fingertip. His fingertip had to be medically amputated. The machine was guarded and not locked out at the time of the incident.

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N. S. Giles Foundations, Inc.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

Weld Mech, Inc.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

Axium Packaging LLC

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

PanTerra Energy

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

Graphic Packaging International

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Viking Packing Specialist

An employee was using a pneumatic nail gun to assemble crates. A nail punctured the employee's left index finger.

Caravan Packaging, Inc.

On December 10, 2024, an employee was using a table saw to cut wood and amputated their fingertip. The saw was guarded at the time.

Petco Animal Supplies - DSC

An employee was driving a counterbalance forklift. When he approached the opening of a demising wall, his lower left leg/foot got caught between the forklift and the bollard. He sustained a fracture.

Deufol Worldwide Packaging, LLC.

An employee was cutting boards using a table saw when their right hand came in contact with the blade, resulting in amputations to their middle, ring, and little fingers.

MEI Rigging & Crating Dallas

An employee was building a crate using a pneumatic nail gun when a nail shot into the employee's knee.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.