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

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Viakable Manufacturing LLC, 2969 Chartres St., LA SALLE, ILLINOIS 61301 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).

An employee was guiding wire onto a reel when the machine started up and crushed two fingers on their left hand. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation that was surgically reattached.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery unspecified

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

A temporary employee was stripping wire for scrap when the machine crushed their left thumb and little finger.

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

An employee was operating a rewinder machine and partially amputated the right index finger (distal phalanx).

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Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

Day & Zimmermann Lone Star LLC

An employee was working on a production line. The employee went to retrieve parts that came out of the parts holder, and their left hand became caught between a chain and a sprocket. Three fingers on the hand were amputated.

Ingalls Shipbuilding

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

Galaxy Balloons Inc.

An employee was operating a pad printer. The employee's finger was caught in the printer and they suffered a fingertip amputation. The part of the printer that caught the employee's finger was unguarded at the time.

OKLAHOMA STEEL & WIRE CO. INC.

An employee was driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) carrying a nesting sheave on the back counterweight of the PIT. He was holding the sheave when the PIT struck a pothole in the floor, causing the sheave to roll forward and crush his right index fingertip against the back of the PIT seat frame. The employee's fingertip was amputated, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Certified Slings & Supply

An employee was building slings. They were placing wire rope in a pneumatic vise when their right index finger was caught between the vise and the wire rope, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

Trion Industries, Inc.

On September 15, 2025, an employee was working on an auto-welder when the guard closed on their left ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Bright Coop, Inc

At about 7:15 a.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was using a construction compactor to stabilize the dirt of a dam that had just been built. The dirt gave way underneath the compactor, which tipped on its left side. The employee fell out and was crushed and pinned between the compactor and the dirt. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken sternum and broken ribs on both sides, as well as a laceration to the left leg by the ankle joint.

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

A temporary employee was stripping wire for scrap when the machine crushed their left thumb and little finger.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

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.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.