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

Shawsheen Rubber Company, Inc.

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Shawsheen Rubber Company, Inc., 220 Andover Street, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS 01810 on — Fractures, affecting the forearm(s).

An employee was completing a roll converting operation on a machine when their hand/arm became caught in the rollers. Both bones in their forearm were broken.

Hospitalized Forearm(s) Machinery, unspecified

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.

Industrial Fabrics, Inc.

An employee was walking by a lathe machine when his left hand got caught in a roller of the lathe machine. The employee sustained amputations involving the last two digits of the left hand and partial amputation of the middle finger.

Trelleborg Coated Systems US, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the nip roller and setting up/operating a laminating machine when their left hand was caught in the machine and crushed. The employee sustained the amputation of their middle, ring, and little fingers. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Schneller LLC

An employee was working at a coating/printing wind-up station when his right arm was caught in the machine. He suffered multiple fractures to the arm, including a compound fracture.

Noble Biomaterials, Incorporated

An employee used a forklift to lift an electric pallet jack so they could diagnose a problem with the pallet jack. The pallet jack fell off the forklift forks and struck the employee. He sustained fractures to the ribs and pelvis. He also fell, landing on a stack of pallets which fractured his left forearm.

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation

An employee was cleaning debris from a machine when their left hand was caught in the in-going nip point. The employee sustained fractures and a crush injury to fingers of the left hand.

A&S Services Group

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

American Flowform and Machining, LLC

Two employees were setting up a mandrel in the spindle of a machine. The mandrel was side-shifted while an employee's hand was on the mast of a powered industrial truck. The employee suffered crushing injuries that resulted in amputations to the middle and ring fingertips.

Acushnet Rubber Company, Inc

An employee had been loading a double deck press. The employee saw a mold had been sent in with the C-hook still attached on the belly bar. As he went to remove the hook from the mold, his right thumb got caught on the C-hook. The employee's thumb was partially amputated.

Warner Brothers, LLC

An employee was operating a roller and paving a small pathway next to a pavilion. The ground was on a slight pitch, causing him to reach up toward the roll cage to stabilize himself. His right fifth finger was pinched between the roll cage and the rafter of the pavilion. The employee sustained a partial degloving injury with partial traumatic amputation.

Roby's Propane Gas

An employee was delivering home heating fuel when bees came from the ground and stung the employee's face, neck, torso, and hands. The employee proceeded to shut off the oil flow before losing consciousness. They were hospitalized due to an anaphylactic reaction.