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

Mueller Electric Company Inc

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Mueller Electric Company Inc, 2850 Gilchrist RD, AKRON, OHIO 44305 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Thumb(s).

An employee was working to unjam a crimper machine. The machine cycled and crushed the employee's left thumb, causing an amputation.

Amputation Thumb(s) Bending, crimping machinery

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.

Electrex Incorporated

An employee was cutting a board on a table saw and amputated his right thumb. The employee also lacerated his palm and cut his index and middle fingers.

TE Connectivity

An employee was climbing a fixed caged ladder to perform preventative maintenance on the roof and fell approximately 8 feet. The employee suffered a fractured pelvis and compression fractures to their L4 and L5 vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

Burndy LLC

An employee was using a bin tilter to move material when his left little finger was caught between the bin and the bin tilter. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Hubbell Burndy, Inc.

An employee was hospitalized with breathing problems after being exposed to nitric acid fumes.

TE Connectivity Corporation

An employee was operating a stamping press that had pieces moving from it to an automated reeler. The employee's left index finger was partially amputated by the reel cutter.

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.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

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.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.