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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

JELD-WEN

Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Fractures and surface, flesh wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at JELD-WEN, 465 Tannehill Road, DODSON, LOUISIANA 71422 on — Fractures and surface, flesh wounds , affecting the Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified.

On January 6, 2024, an employee was returning a hopper cart in a plant. The employee's right hand was crushed between the cart and a support beam, causing a fracture and a laceration to the hand. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified Hoppers except confined space

JELD-WEN

An employee was standing on the ground speaking to the operator of a stationary, parked forklift. Another (moving) forklift struck him, causing multiple pelvic fractures.

JELD-WEN

An employee was struck by a piece of material ejected from a machine, resulting in a laceration to the arm as well as a laceration and bruising to the liver.

JELD-WEN

An employee slipped on a liquid that was present on the floor and injured his back and leg, requiring hospitalization.

JELD-WEN

While waiting for reject materials to be generated, an employee's right-hand middle, ring, and pinky fingers became wedged in a pinch point of the conveyor. The fingers broke and suffered skin removal.

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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.

Milk Specialties Global

An employee was diagnosing the lack of flow of product to a powder bin. The employee removed the rotary star valve below the bin. While he was reinstalling the valve, his right middle finger was crushed between its shaft and its housing. The finger was partially amputated.

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.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Boise Cascade Wood Products, LLC

An employee was using a water hose to clean debris out of the outfeed of a log conditioning vat. Water began entering the vat from the adjoining vat through a void in the separation wall at the infeed of the vats. As the employee was exiting the vat he had been working in using the access opening at the outfeed, hot water exiting the access opening entered the top of his protective hip wader. It pooled at the bottom of the wader and burned his left foot and ankle.

Hartzell Hardwoods

On August 31, 2025, an employee was pulling a belt around a pulley when their right ring finger was caught between the pulley and the belt for the underdraft fan. The finger was lacerated and the employee was hospitalized.

Danzer Veneer Americas, Inc

An employee was on a ladder, pruning a tree in the outside picnic area. The employee lost their balance and fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to their lower left leg.

Smith Family Companies, Inc.

On May 8, 2025, an employee was dumping a trash hopper while operating a forklift. His left hand was caught in a pinch point on the bottom of the trash hopper, resulting in a partial amputation to the index fingertip.

Georgia Pacific Wood Products LLC

An employee was cleaning an air station with a pressure washer when the water stream went through their boot and contacted their left foot, resulting in a 1.5 inch by 1 inch laceration to the top of the foot.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.