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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Doka USA, LTD.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Doka USA, LTD., 22901 W. Winchester Drive, CHANNAHON, ILLINOIS 60410 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

On March 9, 2023, an employee was helping to disassemble a platform by removing the hardware. The employee's left ring finger became caught between the assembly channel and the cup square bolt, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Scaffolds-staging, unspecified

Doka USA Ltd.

On June 23, 2025, at approximately 8:50 a.m., an employee was working in the wash bay area, using an overhead crane to move galvanized steel formwork panels that weighed approximately 386 pounds. The overhead crane was rigged with transport bolts, shackles, and an O-ring. While the employee was lowering one of the panels into position, the shackles and O-ring were caught on the edge of the panel. During final positioning, one of the shackles dislodged and the panel shifted suddenly, causing the employee's fingers to be caught between two panels. The employee's left middle fingertip was amputated, and they sustained a laceration on their left index finger.

DOKA USA LTD.

An employee fell from a rack or shelf to the ground about 6 feet below. He suffered a broken pelvis and minor head injuries.

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TForce Freight

An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.

Liveo Research, Inc.

An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.

Best Pump and Flow

An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Lasseter Tractor Company. Inc.

An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An excavator bucket was being removed. An employee was pulling a snap ring to remove a pin and lost his grip. The high-tension snap ring recoiled and his left middle fingertip was amputated by the snap ring.

Beard Equipment Company, Inc.

An employee was walking between service bays. He came into contact with a trailer hitch, which was sticking out of the back of a lawn mower, and fell to the concrete floor. He landed on his right side and suffered a broken hip.

Milton Rents in Rochester

An employee was taking a scissor lift off a flatbed trailer. While using the remote operator controls and walking alongside the lift, the wheel of the lift turned in the wrong direction, causing it to strike the employee and roll over his left ankle. The employee was hospitalized with two broken bones in his ankle.

POWER MOTIVE CORPORATION

An employee was working on an excavator's tracks. He was swinging a sledgehammer to finish pushing a metal tractor pin into the track links. A hammer-blow caused a piece of the pin to fly off, ricochet, and embed itself in his buttock. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp

An employee was picking up crane pads to put onto their trailer. Their finger got pinched between pads, resulting in an amputation involving the loss of skin.

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.