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

Famous Supply Company

Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Famous Supply Company, 350 Courtney Road, SEBRING, OHIO 44672 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was operating a powered pallet jack with sheet metal loaded on its forks. As he held the metal in place while moving to a new location, the lift came to a stop. The metal shifted and amputated the tip of his middle finger.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Pallet jack-powered

AMERISTAR APARTMENT SERVICES, L.P.

On October 26, 2023, an employee was riding on the forks of a forklift that was moving a stack of glass panels. The forklift made a turn and the glass fell on the injured employee, causing lacerations and crush injuries to their hands.

SMITH FLOORING

An employee was on a tractor and moving a stack of lumber when a board shot out from the stack and struck the employee's right leg. Their tibia was fractured and required surgery.

Jillamy Packaging and Warehouse

An employee was using a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) equipped with specialized horizontal clamps to move multiple heavy paper rolls. The top roll came loose from the clamps, falling towards the cab of the lift and lacerating the employee's middle and ring fingers.

Postel Erections Group, L.L.C.

An employee was helping a forklift operator move a steel joist. The joist struck a forklift tire, and as the forklift started to move, the joist shifted and struck the employee's right leg, resulting in a fracture.

AAA Cooper Transportation

An employee was using a pallet jack to move product from a truck to a customer location. A box on the top of the pallet shifted while the pallet was going over the bump of a dock plate and fell on the employee s head. Afterward, the employee experienced numbness in their limbs.

Plumb Supply Company

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

Green Art Plumbing Supply

A delivery driver was delivering supplies. He fell off his flatbed truck and struck his head. He was hospitalized.

Atlanta Winsupply

Equipment was being brought back online after a break-in and vandalism. An arc flash occurred when an employee cycled a 480-volt circuit breaker. The employee suffered burns to the face and hands.

Kansas City Winnelson

An employee was unloading an 8-inch ducting pipe when the pipe rolled and crushed their legs. The employee sustained fractures to both ankle.

F.W. Webb Company

An employee was lifting the liftgate on the rear of his delivery truck after making a delivery when his right hand was caught in the liftgate. The employee sustained four fractured fingers.

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.