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

Sysco Foods

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Sysco Foods, 1451 River Oaks Road West, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70123 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).

An employee was closing a rolling door on a trailer when his right little fingertip was caught in one of the door panels and partially amputated.

Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Gates, hatches vehicle and machine cargo

Sysco Foods

A delivery driver was delivering product at a customer location. He was using an electric pallet jack to offload a pallet when he fell off the trailer liftgate. The pallet jack then fell on his leg, causing the driver to sustain a broken leg and a laceration to his forehead from the fall.

Sysco Foods

An employee was walking through the kitchen when he slipped and fell, sustaining a broken leg. He was hospitalized.

Sysco Foods

An employee was operating a pallet jack to assist a co-worker when they lost control and the accelerator was activated. The employee dismounted the vehicle, resulting in an ankle fracture that required surgery.

Sysco Foods

An employee was using a pallet jack to transport a pallet into a cooler when a forklift exited the cooler and struck the employee's lower leg resulting in a broken bone.

Sysco Foods

An employee was unloading empty pallets out of his trailer using a pallet jack. A contracted employee was on a nearby dock, stacking pallets using a forklift. The injured employee was standing with his back facing the dock when the contracted employee backed up their forklift and contacted the employee's foot, resulting in foot injuries.

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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.

Kitchen Fresh Foods Inc

An employee was cleaning a depositor machine to setup for a new product run. His right index finger was caught by moving parts in the depositor machine and the fingertip was partially amputated without bone loss.

Dietz & Watson Inc.

An employee was under a label machine, working to remove a jammed label. The machine partially amputated her left index finger at the first knuckle.

Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company LLC

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. While standing beside the equipment, the pallet jack lurched forward, pinning the employee's leg against racking. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right ankle.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was on a top stock cart, moving items on shelving on the sales floor. The employee fell and suffered a broken left ankle. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was using a walkie stacker when the merchandise on it shifted and fell onto him. He suffered a head injury and a broken left leg that required surgery. He was hospitalized.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.