Severe Workplace Injuries in Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Employers in Fair Lawn reported 10 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2016 through August 2025: 7 workers hospitalized and 4 amputations (40% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 5 of them.
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How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Fair Lawn since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 96 inspections at Fair Lawn workplaces, and 60 of them (63%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 123 serious, 2 willful and 6 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $811,674.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| A. Zerega's Sons, Inc. (referral, details) | 3 (1 serious+) | $23,514 |
| Anthony Builders LLC (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $4,965 |
| Mavis Discount Tire (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $9,222 |
| Depasquale Salon Systems, Inc (referral, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $12,744 |
| Jack Daniel's Motors, Inc. (complaint, details) | 6 (4 serious+) | $4,965 |
| Edgewater Manufacturing Company, Inc. (unprogrammed, details) | 7 (5 serious+) | $7,450 |
| Edgewater Manufacturing Company, Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $4,255 |
| On Time Contracting Inc. (programmed, details) | 6 (6 serious+) | $28,343 |
| Jie General Construction LLC (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $4,063 |
| Joel Tanis & Sons (referral, details) | 3 | $12,500 |
| Olinel Construction LLC (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $2,200 |
| Miguel Nunez (planned, details) | 6 (6 serious+) | $18,753 |
Penalties as currently recorded by OSHA; they can drop after settlement or contest. Inspection data covers federal OSHA inspections and state-run safety program inspections reported to OSHA.
Most recent reports
The 10 newest severe injury reports from Fair Lawn employers, as OSHA published them.
Aug 7, 2025 · A. ZEREGA'S SONS, INC. Amputation
An employee was cleaning accumulated pasta from a jammed regrind machine. The employee's right ring fingertip was caught in the machine and was amputated.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1842906
Jun 9, 2025 · LLoyd Imports Inc. Amputation
An employee was manually lifting a dock leveler onto a truck. His finger was caught between the edge of the leveler and the truck bed, resulting in a partial amputation to the fingertip.
Injured by object handled by person (other) · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Jan 18, 2024 · Trane Amputation
An employee was operating a shear when its blade came down and amputated his left middle and ring fingertips. The machine was guarded at the time.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1721770
Jan 2, 2024 · Student Transportation of America Hospitalized
An employee was checking the attendance of passengers when a car backed over her foot and ankle, resulting in a broken ankle.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Ankle(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Nov 28, 2018 · ALO Cinema Hospitalized
An employee was erecting steel racking when a piece of the steel fell and hit the employee. The employee suffered a broken skull, shoulder, arm, and wrist.
Struck by falling object or equipment · Multiple body parts (other) · Construction
Sep 8, 2018 · Thermo Fischer Scientific Hospitalized
An employee had been filling steel kegs and moving the kegs using material handling equipment when the employee began to feel unwell, requiring hospitalization for heat exhaustion.
Exposure to environmental heat · Body systems · Manufacturing
Sep 6, 2018 · Mondelez Global LLC Hospitalized
An employee was supervising mechanics who were attempting to replace a gauge roller s drive motor. The mechanics had begun to lift the replacement drive motor and frame assembly with a motorized material handling device when the motor and frame assembly began to move off of the forks and tipped over, making contact with the injured employee's right foot. He then fell and his leg impacted the floor, fracturing his right ankle and tibia. He was hospitalized.
Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Ankle(s) and leg(s) (other) · Manufacturing
Aug 21, 2018 · INDUSTRIAL CONSULTING & MARKETING, INC. Hospitalized
An employee was stacking slabs of granite when a slab fell over and broke his left leg.
Struck by falling object or equipment · Leg(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1340469
Mar 1, 2018 · Mondelez Global LLC Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning a conveyor when his right arm was fractured in the conveyor rollers.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Arm(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1299262
Dec 15, 2016 · A. ZEREGA'S SONS, INC. Amputation
An employee was attempting to unjam a mixer when the machine amputated two of his fingers.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1197786
After a workplace injury in New Jersey
Most work injuries are handled through workers' compensation, which pays medical bills and part of lost wages whether or not anyone was at fault, and usually rules out suing the employer. A separate claim may be possible against someone else, such as an equipment maker or another company on the site. Reporting deadlines are short, so tell your employer about an injury right away.
Workers compensation lawyers in New Jersey
Lawbamba lists 323 workers compensation lawyers with an office in New Jersey, the practice area that deals with the workplace injury and OSHA inspection records on this page. These 4 come first in that listing (how the order is set).
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Source: OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, 2015 through November 2025 (loaded November 9, 2026). Employers must report any work-related amputation, loss of an eye or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours. Employer names, addresses and incident descriptions are as OSHA publishes them. A report records an injury, not a finding that the employer broke a rule; OSHA opens an inspection for some reports. The data covers workplaces under federal OSHA. States that run their own OSHA program (such as California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia) are mostly missing, and work-related deaths are reported separately.
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