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

Fisk Alloy Inc

Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Fisk Alloy Inc, 10 Thomas Road, HAWTHORNE, NEW JERSEY 07507 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was fixing a tangled wire from a multi-block machine when their finger got caught. In removing their finger, they sustained an amputation to their right middle finger (first knuckle).

Amputation Fingertip(s) Wire, cables-nonelectrical

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.

Cerro Flow Products, LLC

An employee was polishing a bar on the lathe with sandpaper when the bar wrapped around the employee's glove and pulled it off. The employee sustained fractures to their index finger, wrist, and a knuckle.

MUELLER COPPER TUBE CO., LLC

An employee was using an electrical meter to troubleshoot an electrical drive system. While removing the probe, the employee made contact with the bus and was shocked. The employee sustained burns to their fingers and a dislocated shoulder.

Revere Copper Products, Inc.

An employee was setting up a furnace and lighting the torch on the furnace when they sustained burns from a flashback flame. The employee was hospitalized with burns to their head, face, chest, arms, and armpit area.

Wieland Chase LLC

An employee was using a metal bar tied to a nylon strap attached to a jib crane to tighten a metal ring on a heated extrusion press. The metal bar flew off and struck the employee in the left forearm, fracturing it.

Republic Wire, Inc.

An employee was troubleshooting the lift table of the automated take-up mechanism on the jacket extrusion line. He was able to get the table to raise up, at which point it engaged and lowered. The employee's leg was pinned between the lift table and the concrete floor. His ankle was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.