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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Bimbo Bakeries, USA Inc.

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Bimbo Bakeries, USA Inc., 1540 S. 54th Avenue, CICERO, ILLINOIS 60804 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was cleaning a brownie depositor on a production line. While reaching under the depositor to clear a potential clog, the employee suffered an amputation to a left-hand fingertip at the nailbed.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified

Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

An employee was unloading product from a truck when the truck pulled out of the dock. Product struck the employee causing him to fall out of the trailer to the ground and sustain rib fractures and a head laceration.

Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

An employee was driving a stand-up forklift in the warehouse. The forklift drove over a piece wood and the employee's foot became pinned between the forklift and a wall. The employee's foot was crushed.

Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc.

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a cooler. As the employee was lubricating the machine's pusher arm, the main drive arm engaged and struck the employee's left finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

An employee was working at a station on a bun-making line. He was clearing dough from under a magnetized conveyor when the conveyor pulled in his left hand and broke it.

Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

An employee was trying to clean a conveyor belt/fin blade under a dough chunker. The fin blade caused a partial amputation to a finger on the employee's left hand.

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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.

New Horizon Baking

An employee (who had recently walked through water accumulated on the floor) slipped and fell to the floor. The employee suffered a broken right wrist and right elbow and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

David's Cookies

An employee was performing maintenance on a production line, requiring a testing and positioning phase for the whipped cream dispensers. The employee was positioning the dispensers using wrenches when one of the sensors was triggered by the pie pans coming down the line. The depositor heads lowered and pinched the employee's left ring finger, resulting in an amputated fingertip. The whipped cream dispensers were not guarded at the time and the line was not locked out/tagged out.

Up at Dawn, Inc.

During a line changeover, an employee was rinsing a depositor with water. The employee was working to remove a piece of chocolate, stuck in the machine's roller, when the roller's moving parts caught his middle finger. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip with bone loss.

Alfred Nickles Bakery Inc.

An employee was emptying a trash can into a dumpster. He tripped while turning around, fell over a rail onto the concrete floor, and broke bones in his back and wrist.

Highland Baking Company, Inc.

During a changeover, an employee was wiping down the dough chunker machine and the chunker closed on his left hand. The employee sustained crushing/laceration injuries, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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.