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

Reworld Essex Company LLC.

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Reworld Essex Company LLC., 183 Raymond Blvd., NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07105 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).

An employee was working to clear a rotary valve on a pugmill. Two fingertips were amputated by the rotary valve.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Machinery unspecified

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.

Parker-Hannifin Corporation

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.

Standlee Premium Western Forage

An employee was climbing an 8-foot ladder to clean windows on a house. The employee was reaching to the right when they lost their balance and slipped. The employee fell and their foot became caught in the ladder rungs, causing both the employee and the ladder to fall to the ground. The employee sustained a fracture to the right leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Seatrax

An employee was offloading material using a forklift when the hoisted material began shifting. The employee went to manually stabilize the load and their right middle fingertip was pinched and amputated.

STAR SOAP/STAR CANDLE/PRAYER CANDLE CO., LLC

An employee was packing candles on a line. They reached down to pick up a 12-pack of candles when their right little finger was caught in the conveyor belt, resulting in an amputation at the distal joint.

MPP Sycamore

An employee was walking up a set of three steps that lead out of a pit. Water that had leaked from a valve was on his boots and he slipped and fell backward to the floor. The employee sustained an injury to his L5 vertebra and a ruptured hamstring that required surgery.

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.