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

Clearwater Paper

Exposure to environmental heat unspecified · Effects of heat unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Clearwater Paper, 4278 Mike Padgett Highway, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30906 on — Effects of heat unspecified, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .

An employee was assisting with shutting down a bleach plant when they began to feel ill and were hospitalized with a heat illness.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat environmental

Clearwater Paper

An employee was opening a valve to release material into a sewer system when the material went under their left pant leg and over their rubber boot. The employee sustained second-degree burns to the calf and foot area.

Clearwater Paper

An employee was replacing the belt to a coolant fan when their right ring fingertip was caught between the belt and the sheave and amputated.

Clearwater Paper

On 10/03/2019, an employee was lifting a roll with an overhead crane and adjusting the nylon rigging where it attached to the crane's hook when the employee's middle finger was caught in between the strap and the hook, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

An employee was running during a fitness test and experienced heat illness, chest pains, and felt faint. The employee sustained heat exhaustion.

Tnemec Company, Inc.

At about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2025, a warehouse technician working for Tnemec Company, Inc., began sweating profusely a half-hour into their shift. The employee was using a forklift to move staged pallets of paint to a shrink-wrapper, shrink-wrap the pallets, and then load the pallets onto a truck using a forklift. The employee became ill about two hours later and was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

C& L Tiling, Inc.

An employee was performing job duties and became overheated. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

VMC Specialty Alloys LLC

On July 29, 2025, an employee working near a metal furnace. Toward the end of his shift, he was charging a furnace and began to experienced heat exhaustion. He had also been in areas of elevated temperatures due to heat sources such as direct sunlight and a combustion engine. The employee was hospitalized with dehydration.

United States Steel Corporation

An employee was working near molten metal and experienced heat illness symptoms including cramps. The employee was hospitalized.

Georgia-Pacific Palatka, LLC

Tools and parts were being lowered to the ground from an elevated platform in a 5-gallon bucket. The rope being used to lower the bucket failed; the tools and parts fell and lacerated the left forearm and upper left leg of an employee on the ground.

International Paper

An employee was tracking an infeed belt on a scrap hogger when their right arm was caught between the belt and a roller. The arm was broken and the employee's shoulder was dislocated. The employee was hospitalized.

Sofidel America, Corp

An employee was working to clear a jam from a paper napkin folder. The ram that advanced the napkins pushed the employee's right arm into the side of the machine, causing several lacerations and a hairline fracture.

Akers Packaging Services Group

An employee was troubleshooting overflowing ink on a printer-slotter machine when their right ring fingertip was caught in a guarded roller, resulting in a partial amputation.

Domtar

An employee was disconnecting wires in preparation to swap out a refiner motor when they contacted energized equipment and sustained an electrical shock. The employee was hospitalized.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

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.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

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.