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

Day & Zimmermann Lone Star LLC

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations involving bone loss

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Day & Zimmermann Lone Star LLC, Highway 82 West, TEXARKANA, TEXAS 75501 on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..

An employee was working on a production line. The employee went to retrieve parts that came out of the parts holder, and their left hand became caught between a chain and a sprocket. Three fingers on the hand were amputated.

Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Machinery unspecified

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

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

Ingalls Shipbuilding

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

Galaxy Balloons Inc.

An employee was operating a pad printer. The employee's finger was caught in the printer and they suffered a fingertip amputation. The part of the printer that caught the employee's finger was unguarded at the time.

WL Plastics

Employees were hooking up a new reel of pipe to be processed into shorter lengths. This process involved routing a winch cable through a haul-off and attaching it to the pipe using a clamp. One employee held the winch cable while another pressed the feed-out button to loosen the cable. The cable tightened and pulled the hand of the employee holding it into a pulley. The employee's right index and middle fingertips were amputated at the first knuckle.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Inc.

At about 2:15 p.m. on February 10, 2025, employees were unloading pallets of propellant into a storage warehouse. The pallets were double stacked, and a top-loaded pallet had shifted in transit. Two employees were manually moving the pallet when the fiber packs shifted, causing one employee's left index finger to be pinched between the fiber pack and the pallet. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

AMERICAN ORDNANCE LLC

An employee was walking on the sidewalk near the administrative building when he slipped on ice and fell to the concrete ground. The employee suffered a left hip fracture and was hospitalized.

General Dynamics Ordnance And Tactical Systems, Inc.

An employee was changing an insert in the tool head of a CNC machine. The employee had stepped up approximately 28 inches onto the door track of the machine. When the employee went to step back down to the floor, they lost balance and fell backward onto a rack of metal parts. The employee sustained a compression fracture to the spine.

AMERICAN ORDNANCE LLC

An employee was pushing a cart loaded with 15 rounds of ammunition shells into an oven. The funnel broke off, causing an explosive to go off. The employee sustained burns on the right side of his head.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.