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

Golden Peanut Company, LLC

Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Golden Peanut Company, LLC, 715 MLK Jr. Drive, DAWSON, GEORGIA 39842 on — Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries, affecting the Upper arm(s).

An employee was hanging a tote bag on a forklift tine when their upper arm became caught between the tote bag and the tine. The employee had the soft tissue of the upper arm crushed.

Hospitalized Upper arm(s) Bags, sacks

Golden Peanut Company, LLC

An employee was power-washing the area around a filter. The filter medium was pressurized and released; hot water and steam struck the employee, who suffered burns to the left arm (from the wrist to just above the elbow) and the back of the neck.

Golden Peanut Company, LLC

An employee was operating a tractor when it flipped and ejected him. Its back tire then rolled over him, and he suffered a collapsed lung, broken ribs on the right side, and lacerations to the left hand and right arm.

Golden Peanut Company, LLC

An employee had been operating a forklift. While releasing a dumper trash hopper into a dumpster, the employee's finger became trapped in the base of the trash hopper. The left index fingertip was amputated.

Golden Peanut Company, LLC

An employee pinched two fingers between the cable and pulley of a portable belt conveyor resulting in an amputation injury. The motor was not running at the time of the incident.

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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.

Ohio Hickory Harvest Brand Products, Inc.

An employee was pulling a rubber conveyor belt around the end of a line to connect it to the mechanical portion underneath. The employee's right hand was pulled into the gears under the belt, causing an amputation to the right thumb.

Hormel Foods Corporation

An employee was cleaning a label cutter drum with a rag. His left index finger was caught in the cutter resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Star Snacks Co., LLC

An employee was mopping a floor. When he went to move a portable spice spreader, it fell on him and lacerated an area behind his right knee. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

JOHN B. SANFILIPPO & SON, INC

An employee was operating a stand-up powered industrial truck when their left foot was crushed between the forklift and a support beam, resulting in fractures to multiple bones in their foot.

Delta Peanut, LLC

An employee was cleaning when peanut dust hit his face causing him to fall 3 feet from a ladder onto a metal object. The employee sustained a partial collapse of his right lung.

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.