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

TEXTRON SPECIALIZED VEHICLES INC.

Struck by running powered equipment irregular movement, kick back · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at TEXTRON SPECIALIZED VEHICLES INC., 1451 Marvin Griffin Road, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30906 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..

An employee was attempting to program a brake press. The part that was in the press kicked up and pinched the employee's right index finger between the material and the top of the press, resulting in a partial amputation.

Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Stamping machinery, presses except printing

Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc.

An employee was replacing a starter generator bracket on a gas-powered golf cart. This required removal of the starter. He removed the seat to gain access to engine compartment and knelt on the floorboard of the car to get into position to perform the task. He loosened the starter generator adjustment bolt so that the starter generator belt could be removed. After loosening the adjustment bolt, he began to pull the belt off the front pully on the starter generator. At the same time, his knee pressed the accelerator pedal on the car. This caused the starter generator to be energized and it began to turn catching his left middle finger between the pully and the belt resulting in a partial amputation.

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Champion Replacement Windows of Kansas City

An employee was cutting a board using a circular saw. The saw pinched, kicked back, and cut the employee's left ring and little fingers. The employee suffered an amputation to the little finger.

Jamestown Metal Marine Sales, Inc.

An employee was cutting wood with a circular saw. The saw kicked back, and its blade cut three fingers on the employee's right hand, resulting in an amputation.

Oschner Clinic Foundation

An employee was using a table saw to cut wedges for a deck when the wood jumped and his right palm was lacerated by the blade.

Menard, Inc.

An employee was doing a cutback on a piece of lumber using a chop saw. The saw hit a knot, the piece of lumber buckled, then kicked back and broke the kickback guard. The board was then pulled back into the blade, which lacerated the employee's left index and middle fingers.

FC Drywall

An employee was cutting wood with a circular saw. The machine lagged and cut the employee's finger. The employee required surgical amputation of the finger at the hospital.

Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, LLC

An employee was cleaning mud out of the tracks of a mini excavator while the operator had the machine tilted up off the ground to one side. The tracks moved and the employee's left wrist was caught in the gears. The employee sustained puncture wounds to the wrist and two fractures.

Odyssey Transport & Warehouse LLC

An employee was loading a truck with a forklift. The truck drove away from the dock and the forklift fell between the dock and the truck. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to their head, back, and leg.

Rex Nova Transportation

An employee was moving trucks in the yard. He was working between trucks when a back door swung open and caught their right hand against the frame of another truck. The employee sustained a crushing injury to a finger.

YAMAHA MOTOR MANUFACTURING CORPORATION OF AMERICA

On August 21, 2025, a product development engineer was test riding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on a test track when the ATV flipped over. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle and three fractured ribs.

R.G. Steel Corp.

On June 9, 2025, an employee was walking in the yard and parking area. The employee stepped up from the yard/parking lot onto a patio with an approximate 6" rise at the exterior corner of the main office. After his second foot was planted on the patio surface, he lost his balance and fell backward to the concrete ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip that required surgery and a laceration to the elbow.

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.