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

United Mail

Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at United Mail, 928 Dalton Avenue, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45214 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was opening dock area doors when the bottom panel came off the tracks. A door handle caught the employee's fingers and amputated their fingertips.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Garage doors

KLX Energy Services

An employee was closing an office door when their middle fingertip was caught between the door and the frame, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

ALAN WIRE COMPANY

An employee was doing a repair in an office building. He was closing a bank vault door when his right index finger became caught between the door and the door frame resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Dakota Plains Dairy, LLC

An employee's left index finger was pinched between a cattle gate and a concrete wall, resulting in amputation of soft tissue and loss of the fingernail.

USPS

An employee was delivering mail when their left little finger got caught in a door and the door closed, resulting in amputation.

R. F. KNOX COMPANY, INC.

On December 11, 2023, an employee was transporting equipment for demolition tasks and waiting for the superintendent to open the door. The door closed and amputated the tip of the employee's left thumb.

L2S LLC

On September 30, 2025, at 1:45 a.m., an employee was operating a forklift to load materials on an outbound dock. His left foot became caught between the forklift and a pole, resulting in a broken big toe.

Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica

An employee was riding a horse in the horse corral/riding arena when the horse bucked multiple times. The employee performed an emergency dismount off the right side of the horse. When she landed, she fell backward in the sand, onto her back. The employee sustained a crushed vertebra.

IFCO Systems

An employee was pulling an electrical wire from a circuit. The wire contacted a live wire and created an arc flash. The employee sustained burns on their left side and arm.

Roosevelt Paper Company

An employee was operating a heat press machine. His right foot was caught between a paper roller and the heat press, resulting in amputation of a toe.

HVFG, LLC

On 11/08/2024, an employee was working on piping a refrigeration condenser. Refrigeration condensers arrive from the factory with the internal piping pressurized and the end capped. The employee was cutting a capped refrigeration line when the cap blew off, striking the battery-operated saw he was using and knocking the saw it into his face. He was cut under the nose and struck on the head. The angle of the impact pushed metal fragments under his safety glasses and into his eyes. The employee sustained metal fragments in his eyes, lacerations to the face, and contusions to the head.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.