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

Federal Express Corporation

Struck by door, gate, window · Amputations involving bone loss

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Federal Express Corporation, 173 Doremus Ave, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07105 on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).

An employee was closing a garage door. As the door slid, the employee's right ring finger was caught in one of its wheel tracks. The fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.

Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Doors rail mounted and garage

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was moving a large package from a slide when her left arm got caught between the slide (tilt tray) and the package. She was hospitalized with a fractured left arm.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee had been loading packages into a vehicle. While exiting the vehicle, he tripped and fell, fracturing both ankles.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was was unloading packages on airplane cargo while standing on metal grating. He fell onto the grating, resulting in a laceration to his left knee.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was in a delivery truck bed loading packages. The employee fell from the truck bed between the rear of the truck and the dock. She was hospitalized with bruises and contusions to her back, right hip, and leg.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was cutting the bolt seal on a container trailer when he was struck by a dolly that was being used to move another trailer. The employee suffered a broken ankle and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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Main Line Clinical Labs

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

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

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.

AAA Complete Building Services, Inc.

A building engineer was inspecting a generator. As he closed the generator enclosure door, his right ring finger was caught between the door and the door frame. The fingertip was amputated.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was moving a large package from a slide when her left arm got caught between the slide (tilt tray) and the package. She was hospitalized with a fractured left arm.

Parsec LLC

An employee was operating a switch truck at a rail yard. He got out of the switch truck to unlock a container that was attached to a unit in front of him. The switch truck rolled and pinned the employee against the container. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis, a ruptured spleen, and a possible spinal cord injury.

Parsec LLC

An employee was sidestepping along the catwalk of a railcar when he lost his balance and fell approximately 4 feet to the ground. The employee's right hip was fractured.

UPS

An employee was working to realign the two top sections of a set of collapsible rollers (trailer-on-flatcar rollers). The rollers suddenly fell into place and pinched her left index fingertip against the lower sections. She suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

Bloom Logistics, Inc.

An employee was delivering a package. A dog bit the employee in the abdominal area, and the employee was hospitalized.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.