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

CLARIOS INC.

Compressed between running equipment and other object(s) · Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at CLARIOS INC., 4722 Pear Street, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI 64503 on — Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries, affecting the Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified.

An employee was operating a lift table when his hand was crushed in it.

Hospitalized Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified Jacks

Energy Erectors

An employee was working to build an electrical substation. He was cleaning out the inside of a fixed section of a PVC pipe on the end that was furthest from an excavator. The excavator was outside of the trench and more than 25 feet away when it moved a pipe, pinching the employee's right arm between the two pipes. The employee's forearm was fractured.

Thompson Pipe Group

An employee was anchored to a movable piece of equipment called a "lid" with a self-retracting lifeline harness. An overhead crane lifted the equipment, causing the employee to be pulled by his harness. The employee was pulled off the walkway and swung over the wall of the kiln. His body and head struck the wall. The employee lost consciousness and sustained a laceration to the side of his head that required stitches. The employee also sustained multiple fractured ribs and fractured vertebrae.

Colasanti South, Inc.

An employee was in a scissor lift, preparing to strip formwork from the underside of a concrete deck. As the lift was ascending, the employee's left little finger was pinched between the lift rail and the concrete beam above. The employee was hospitalized, and the soft tissue of their left little fingertip was amputated; the finger's bony tuft was also damaged.

Ryder Integrated Logistics & Distribution System

An employee was operating an order picker when his left middle finger was crushed between the lift and storage racking. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

HardHat WorkForce Solutions, LLC

An employee was ascending in a scissor lift when his left thumb was caught between between the railing of the lift and a piece of equipment installed in the ceiling. The employee's thumb tip was amputated.

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.

Mobile Energy Battery America, LLC

An employee was demonstrating how to disassemble and reassemble a metal filter unit from the cathode powder transfer line. During the open/close operation of an automated valve, the employee s latex glove became caught. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the left index finger.

Trojan Battery Company, LLC

An employee was placing material on an upright conveyor. The conveyor chain caught his glove, and his middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

HSAGP Energy LLC

On March 5, 2025, an employee was pushing an 8-foot x 12-foot x 2-foot electrical panel weighing 3 tons into the electrode room when the panel tipped over, striking his leg. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.

SK Battery America Inc.

An employee was performing preventative maintenance and lubricating the chain on a machine when the chain pulled the rag the employee was using into the machine, resulting in amputation of the employee's left index fingertip.

WADDELL CONCRETE INC.

An employee was readjusting a safety hook to remove hardware from gang forms when his feet slipped. He fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left arm and wrist.

Dollar Tree

An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Corrigan Brothers Inc

An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.

Plumb Supply Company

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

JRI INDUSTRIES

An employee was manipulating dies on a brake press. The press caught and crushed the employee's right forearm, resulting in hospitalization.