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

Rivian Automotive, LLC

Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Rivian Automotive, LLC, 100 Rivian Motorway, NORMAL, ILLINOIS 61761 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

On April 17, 2023, an employee was operating a lift assist for a front module on an electric delivery van. The control handle rotated and struck the employee's left ring finger, causing an open non-displaced fracture and an amputation.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Delivery truck or van

Rivian Automotive, LLC

On March 19, 2024, an employee was performing maintenance on a press ram when their fingers got caught between the clinch nut and the press pinch point, resulting in a partial amputation to a finger on their left hand.

Rivian Automotive, LLC

An employee was operating a forklift and turning into an aisle when his left foot contacted a structure. The employee sustained fractures to his left foot.

Rivian Automotive, LLC

On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.

Rivian Automotive, LLC

On September 21, 2023, at 6:00 a.m., an employee was speaking to a co-worker that was sitting in a tugger. The tugger accelerated, running over the injured employee's left foot and ankle, resulting in a fractured distal left tibia.

Rivian Automotive, LLC

On September 13, 2023, an employee was in a parked tugger when the vehicle was struck by a forklift.

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Wash Depot Holdings Inc

An employee was drying and finishing vehicles when a vehicle door closed on their left middle fingertip and amputated it.

XPO, Inc.

An employee was climbing down from a tractor trailer bed when they lost their footing and grabbed onto the roll-up door to stop the fall. The roll-up door then fell onto the employee's hand, resulting in a hand fracture that required surgery.

Thyssenkrupp Logistics Inc.

An employee was attempting to remove a tarp from a flatbed trailer when the trailer handle struck the employee in the chest, resulting in two broken ribs and a punctured lung.

East Alabama Paving Company, Inc

An employee was near a backhoe while the operator was getting a broom. The broom handle struck the lever that actuates the swing of the backhoe bucket. The bucket then struck the injured employee, pinning him to the outrigger. The employee suffered crush injuries to the chest.

Gold Star Feed & Grain, LLC

The injured employee was being trained on loading trucks in the load out bay. The injured employee and his supervisor climbed the stairs that run parallel to the truck and trailer, walked to the upper platform used for observation and sample taking, and saw that the lid of the grain trailer was closed. The employees began working to open the lid which appeared to be stuck due to cold weather. The injured employee pulled on one of the pivot arms that connect the lid to the main body of the trailer. As the lid began to open, the employee s right hand slipped down on the pivot arm and his index finger was caught between the pivot arm and the base of the pivot arm. The employee s right index finger was fractured and three nerves were severed. The employee was hospitalized.

Tesla Giga Factory

An employee was using a battery-powered torque tool to fasten a bolt. The tool was activated and the socket of the tool rotated and pulled in their gloved left hand. The employee sustained a left index fingertip amputation.

Tesla, Inc.

An employee was inspecting a casted part that weighed 330 pounds. The part fell from a lift assist onto the employee, striking his upper right arm and head. He suffered burns to the upper right arm and was hospitalized.

Tesla Distribution Center

An employee was reaching to hook her harness into a lanyard and began to experience abdominal pain. The employee sustained an umbilical hernia.

Tesla, Inc.

On June 4, 2025, an employee was skimming molten aluminum when it dripped down from the skimming spoon onto the employee's left pant leg, burning the top of their left foot. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Ventra Sandusky LLC

On June 3, 2025, the injured employee was setting a mold with a co-worker when the mold was displaced and caught their right hand against the stop block. The employee sustained a fracture and partial amputation of their middle finger.

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.