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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Signode Industrial Group, LLC.

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Signode Industrial Group, LLC., 7701 W. 71ST STREET, BRIDGEVIEW, ILLINOIS 60455 on — Fractures, affecting the thoracic region.

An employee was lifting a dropped metal coil off the floor. He suffered a compression fracture to a thoracic vertebra and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Thoracic region Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones

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On July 25, 2023, an employee was dislodging a jam on a re-run line machine conveyor when their left index finger was caught in the pulley and amputated below the first knuckle.

Signode Industrial Group, LLC.

An external contractor was cleaning the floor with a motorized floor scrubber when he smelled propane. The contractor got off the scrubber and opened up the compartment with the propane tank and took it halfway out to check connections. When he tried starting the scrubber back up, the scrubber erupted in flames and he sustained burns. The contractor summoned additional employees. While trying to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher, the scrubber exploded again and caused burns to another employee's head, face, neck, and left hand.

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On May 10, 2018, an employee felt a pop in the abdomen while lifting a 50-pound coil. The employee was hospitalized with pain and nausea.

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An employee was feeding material into a mill on a polypropylene plastic consumable line when the employee's gloved hand was caught between the rolls in the mill, resulting in the amputation of four fingers and the thumb.

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Koch Foods of Cincinnati, LLC

An employee was lifting a motor and reaching to place it on a machine when they sustained a back injury. The employee was hospitalized.

MERCY HOSPITAL

On 12/22/2023, an employee was carrying bins filled with pasta to a refrigerator. As he lifted a 20-pound bin, he felt pain in his lower back. The employee sustained a herniated disc.

Jefferson Lansdale Hospital

An employee was lifting a patient when they pulled a back muscle. She suffered back pain and spasms radiating into her leg with weakness and numbness. The employee's L3-L4 disc was herniated and she was hospitalized.

Raytheon Company

An employee was lifting boxes when they suffered a strained back, resulting in hospitalization.

FUSE BUILDS LLC

An employee was lifting a bundle of insulation with a colleague when he felt severe pain in the right side of his lower back/hip region. The employee sustained a severe muscle injury.

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

An employee was pulling a steel parts handcart when its wheels caught on something and locked up. The cart fell backward. The cart handle struck the middle of the employee's right foot, breaking bones. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Jamestown Metal Marine Sales, Inc.

An employee was cutting wood with a circular saw. The saw kicked back, and its blade cut three fingers on the employee's right hand, resulting in an amputation.

Architectural Metal Solutions, Inc.

An employee was installing a door from an A-frame ladder. He fell from the ladder, landed on his feet about 8 feet below, and suffered a broken tibia.

Spectrum Lighting, Inc.

An employee was leaving the building at the end of the day when she missed a step and fell, fracturing her right foot.

Metal Zinc, LLC

Two employees were running a CNC folder machine. The injured employee went to adjust the metal and the machine came down, crushing her forearms. Her left arm was fractured and both arms required stitches.

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.