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

S&S Activewear

Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at S&S Activewear, 2 Ontelaunee Drive, READING, PENNSYLVANIA 19605 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..

An employee was lifting the chain latch on a gate that was stuck. The latch contacted their right middle finger, resulting in an amputation.

Hospitalized Other finger(s) n.e.c. Gates

S&S Activewear

An employee was was removing plastic wrapping from a pallet. The employee tripped over the plastic and sustained a fractured upper arm.

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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.

Milk Specialties Global

An employee was diagnosing the lack of flow of product to a powder bin. The employee removed the rotary star valve below the bin. While he was reinstalling the valve, his right middle finger was crushed between its shaft and its housing. The finger was partially amputated.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

ALTIUM PACKAGING LP

On September 20, 2025, an employee was clearing a jam on a blow mold machine. The employee's right index and middle fingers were crushed in the mold as it closed during a cycle. The middle finger was medically amputated.

Import Mex Distributors

An employee was operating a pallet jack to transport heavy palletized loads through the department when the pallet jack slid on the wet floor. The injured employee was walking nearby and the pallet jack crushed their foot, resulting in a fractured foot bone.

BJ's Wholesale Club

An employee was scanning a member's purchase when a box containing septic treatment powder was dropped, causing a cloud of the powder to eject. The employee inhaled the chemical and was hospitalized with throat irritation and difficulty breathing.

Fabricut, Inc.

An employee was stepping out of the building to go to her car when she slipped on ice and fell. The employee suffered an ankle fracture.

Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc.

Two employees were disassembling a machine. As both employees tried to place a column on the ground, it tilted to one side. The column fell and struck one of the employee's resulting in a broken right ankle. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.