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

AAK Foodservice

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at AAK Foodservice, 465 Hillside Ave, HILLSIDE, NEW JERSEY 07205 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was cleaning a rotary valve when their left middle fingertip was amputated.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Valves, nozzles

AAK Foodservice

An employee was removing excess butter from a machine when the filler caught the employee's disposable glove, forcing their finger into the mold. The employee sustained lacerations and fractures to two areas of their left middle finger.

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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.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.

Morrison Healthcare

An employee was cleaning a steam kettle; he had the floor grate lifted to access the drain area. He tripped on the open floor grate, striking his knee against the steam kettle's drain pipe and falling onto multiple pieces of kitchen equipment. He landed on the floor, where he struck his head. He was hospitalized with lacerations to his ear, which required surgery to repair.

VOLUME SERVICES INC

An employee was outside a freight elevator, reaching in, when the elevator moved and crushed her right hand. She suffered a broken arm and wrist and was hospitalized, requiring muscle surgery.

Compass Group USA

On September 29, 2025, an employee was removing a pan of pasta from the stove when the pan tipped over. Hot water contacted her legs and feet, resulting in burns to both feet that required hospitalization.

Compass Group USA, Inc.

An employee was walking through a passageway sideways when the edge of her shoe got caught and she fell onto her right hip, resulting in a broken femoral head.

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.