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

Duro Bag Manufacturing Co.

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Duro Bag Manufacturing Co., 750 Dowd Avenue, ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY 07201 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was clearing a jam in a machine when the tip of their little finger was caught on a wheel, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Paper production machinery, unspecified

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.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC

An employee was removing cutting plate dies from a machine when they sustained a fingertip amputation.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC.

An employee was trying to unclog a paper jam in a machine. The machine, which was running at the time, caused an amputation to the employee's right index finger.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC

An employee was unjamming a paper machine when their right middle finger contacted the machine die, resulting in a partial amputation to the fingertip.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC.

An employee was removing a paper jam from a machine when their right hand became caught in the die. Three fingers were amputated.

ASPEN PRODUCTS, INC.

An employee had been running a cutting die machine. While clearing a jam, the employee's left hand was caught by the machine resulting in amputation of two fingers.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.