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

Sefar Inc.

Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Sefar Inc., 111 Calumet Street, DEPEW, NEW YORK 14043 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee's thumb tip was amputated in a chain and sprocket.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Nonclassifiable

NorAm Drilling Company

An employee was assisting with pipe on a drilling rig. The slips came down and landed on the employee's left foot fracturing four metatarsals.

Stalworth Underground LLC

Two employees were struck by the rotary table of a drilling rig while installing caisson. Employee 1 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, and head trauma. Employee 2 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, spinal injury, and head trauma.

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior

Employees were felling hazard trees. The injured employee was conducting 'bucking' operations to saw a tree from the road when the tree kicked-back, pinning him against the ground and fracturing his left femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HT Energy LLC

An employee was greasing tongs on a work-over rig. The tongs lacerated one of the employee's fingers.

TKM BENGARD FARMS, LLC

An employee was chaining a vehicle when he had to change tools and the compressor. As the compressor was being charged, the employee stepped near the vehicle to make sure the compressor was attached. Then, he instructed a co-worker to lower the compressor. His right hand was on the compressor and under the chain, causing his ring finger to be crushed.

AMERICAN SYNTHETIC FIBER, LLC

An employee opened a screen changer when pressurized steam and resin blew out from the changer, resulting in a fourth-degree burn to their left arm.

Great Lakes Polymer Technologies LLC

A temporary employee cut back-wrapped material on an extrusion line. His left hand was caught in the material as he tried to clear it. As the material continued to rotate, the employee's left ring finger was severed, resulting in a partial amputation.

Applegate Greenfiber Acquisition, LLC 8

An employee was using a plastic pipe to clear a jam in the shredding equipment. The pipe got stuck in the shredder and went into a vertical position, crushing the employee's left ring finger between the pipe and the top of the shredder shroud. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Futamura USA, Inc.

An employee was operating a stand-up forklift to move a pallet of product that was sitting on the floor in an aisle of the finishing warehouse next to metal racking. The forklift cab went under the middle shelf and his torso became caught between the metal shelf (at his back) and the forklift steering control stick (at his front). He was hospitalized with possible fractured ribs.

3M Company, Inc.

An employee was starting to collect edge trim when their right middle and ring fingers came into contact with a shear slitter blade. Half of the ring finger was nearly amputated, and half of the middle finger was amputated.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.