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

Wesco

Injured by object pushed or pulled by person · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wesco, 11740 S. Austin Avenue, ALSIP, ILLINOIS 60803 on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).

An employee in the warehouse was working to pull a reel from under a rack when his finger was crushed between the reel and the rack. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Reels, rolls, spools, coils

Southeastern Freight Lines

An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.

Daewon America, Inc.

An employee was pushing automotive suspension material using a material rack. The material started to shift and caught the employee's right little finger, crushing it. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger. The finger was re-attached.

WHOLE FOODS MARKET

An employee was entering a receiving area to start his shift when he was struck by a utility cart being pushed by another employee. The injured employee fell to the floor and suffered a fractured hip.

INDUSTRIAL LABOR INC.

A temporary employee was moving an I-beam that was on a steel table to the edge of the table. Their right index finger was pinched between the I-beam and the table, resulting in a broken finger.

Walmart, Inc.

On August 30, 2025, an employee was turning a pallet jack when their left little finger was caught between its handle and a steel bin. The finger was broken in two places. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Advanced Technology Services

An employee was walking down stairs from the engine storeroom when she fell down the last five or six steps. The employee sustained injuries to her right hip and left ankle, and scratched her left elbow.

Rumpke

An employee was riding on the rear step of a rear-loading trash truck. The truck hit a bump and the employee fell off the step, suffering multiple lacerations, contusions, road rash, and a broken arm and nose.

Fidelitone

An employee pushing a copier machine slipped and fell. The employee sustained a spine injury.

Best Buy

An employee was at a customer's home installing home theater equipment when the employee slipped on icy stairs and fell, suffering a broken tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.

RENEW COMPUTER, INC.

An employee was unloading a server rack from a truck when the rack fell over onto the employee's lower left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.