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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

NATURE'S BAKERY

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at NATURE'S BAKERY, 8860 Pershall Road, HAZELWOOD, MISSOURI 63042 on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Thumb(s) and finger(s).

An employee was cleaning the surface of a conveyor belt with a rag and a pick. The employee's left hand became caught in the drive sprocket resulting in lacerations to her left thumb and index finger requiring surgery.

Hospitalized Thumb(s) and finger(s) Conveyors belt, slot, chain

NATURE'S BAKERY

An employee was cleaning a dough trough in the washroom when he felt a sharp pain his back, resulting in hospitalization due to a herniated disc.

NATURE'S BAKERY

An employee was pushing equipment into place when a drawer on a machine closed and amputated 8mm of their little finger.

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Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

CFL USA, LLC

A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.

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.

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.

Sargento Foods Inc

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

New Horizon Baking

An employee (who had recently walked through water accumulated on the floor) slipped and fell to the floor. The employee suffered a broken right wrist and right elbow and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

David's Cookies

An employee was performing maintenance on a production line, requiring a testing and positioning phase for the whipped cream dispensers. The employee was positioning the dispensers using wrenches when one of the sensors was triggered by the pie pans coming down the line. The depositor heads lowered and pinched the employee's left ring finger, resulting in an amputated fingertip. The whipped cream dispensers were not guarded at the time and the line was not locked out/tagged out.

Up at Dawn, Inc.

During a line changeover, an employee was rinsing a depositor with water. The employee was working to remove a piece of chocolate, stuck in the machine's roller, when the roller's moving parts caught his middle finger. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip with bone loss.

Alfred Nickles Bakery Inc.

An employee was emptying a trash can into a dumpster. He tripped while turning around, fell over a rail onto the concrete floor, and broke bones in his back and wrist.

Highland Baking Company, Inc.

During a changeover, an employee was wiping down the dough chunker machine and the chunker closed on his left hand. The employee sustained crushing/laceration injuries, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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.