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

CiboVita Inc.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations involving bone loss

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at CiboVita Inc., 25 Madison rd, TOTOWA, NEW JERSEY 07512 on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..

An employee was cleaning a mixing machine with an air hose. Blades in the machine amputated two fingers on his right hand. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

Hospitalized Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Mixers, blenders, whippers food and beverage

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

CFL USA, LLC

A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Sargento Foods Inc

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Frito-Lay, Inc

On August 21, 2024, at approximately 5:00 p.m., an employee was addressing a broken metal cable in a crane shuttle aisle. The crane shuttle unexpectedly activated, pinning the employee between the rail frame and crane shuttle. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated and fractured hip as well as fractures to their clavicle and sternum.

Frito-Lay Inc.

An employee was completing a post-trip vehicle inspection when he scratched his right leg on the step of the truck. The employee was hospitalized with cellulitis.

Tara International L.P.

An employee was troubleshooting a seal wrapper machine when the sealer activated and amputated the employee's left middle and ring fingertips.

PepsiCo Frito-Lay Region Office

A delivery driver was crossing the street to return to their truck when the employee was shot in the hip by a drive by shooter. The employee sustained a pelvic fracture.

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.