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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Inc.

Exposure to environmental heat indoor · Effects of heat n.e.c.

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Inc., 156 Cedar Avenue, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA 18505 on — Effects of heat n.e.c., affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .

On July 10, 2024, an employee developed a heat-related illness and was hospitalized with dehydration.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat environmental

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Inc.

At about 2:15 p.m. on February 10, 2025, employees were unloading pallets of propellant into a storage warehouse. The pallets were double stacked, and a top-loaded pallet had shifted in transit. Two employees were manually moving the pallet when the fiber packs shifted, causing one employee's left index finger to be pinched between the fiber pack and the pallet. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

General Dynamics Ordnance And Tactical Systems, Inc.

An employee was changing an insert in the tool head of a CNC machine. The employee had stepped up approximately 28 inches onto the door track of the machine. When the employee went to step back down to the floor, they lost balance and fell backward onto a rack of metal parts. The employee sustained a compression fracture to the spine.

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