Severe Workplace Injuries in Portsmouth, Ohio
Employers in Portsmouth reported 21 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through December 2024: 16 workers hospitalized and 7 amputations (33% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 13 of them.
Reports by year
Industries
How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Portsmouth since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 33 inspections at Portsmouth workplaces, and 17 of them (52%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 42 serious, 0 willful and 16 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $407,801.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Pryme Construction Services LLC (programmed, details) | 2 | $482 |
| R.A.W. Restoration LLC (complaint, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $1,800 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (referral, details) | 11 (9 serious+) | $100,000 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (follow-up, details) | 7 (5 serious+) | $50,000 |
| Southern Ohio Medical Center (referral, details) | 5 (5 serious+) | $24,198 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $7,736 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (referral, details) | 19 (19 serious+) | $161,321 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $5,700 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (complaint, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $11,000 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 | $1,037 |
| Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $6,564 |
| Southern Ohio Medical Center (referral, details) | 5 (2 serious+) | $19,014 |
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 21 newest severe injury reports from Portsmouth employers, as OSHA published them.
Dec 15, 2024 · Houchens Foood Group Hospitalized
An employee was using a bandsaw to cut meat. They were wearing cut-resistant gloves, and a loose thread on the gloves got caught in the blade. Their right little finger was pulled into the saw. The employee suffered a finger laceration with a lacerated tendon.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other finger(s) (other) · Retail
May 28, 2024 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Amputation
An employee reached into the access door of a rip saw while it was powering down, resulting in the amputation of their left hand. Energy control procedures were not used.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Wrist(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1751693
Dec 8, 2023 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Amputation
An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.
Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1717745
Oct 16, 2023 · Southern Ohio Medical Center Hospitalized
On October 16, 2023, an employee was providing home care to a patient when she tripped over oxygen tubing and fell. The employee struck her head on the kitchen wall and suffered a T2 vertebral fracture. The employee was hospitalized.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Thoracic region · Health care and social assistance
Sep 20, 2023 · Southern Ohio Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee was using a rag to clean rollers on a blanket-folding machine. The rag got caught in a roller, pulling the employee's hand inward against a piece of metal on the machine. The employee suffered a laceration across their palm.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Hand(s), except finger(s) · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1699180
Jun 2, 2023 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Amputation
An employee was operating an end matcher machine that makes grooves on hardwood flooring and wall/ceiling paneling. The board overlapped and as the employee went to make a correction, his thumb was partially amputated by the blade.
Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1675409
Sep 27, 2022 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Amputation
An employee's left middle finger was caught in a belt and pulley on top of a molder. The fingertip was amputated.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1626768
Aug 30, 2022 · American Producers Supply Company, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was unloading a pallet out of the back of a truck. The employee fell from the back of the truck to the concrete ground, suffering injuries to the head and neck.
Other fall to lower level · Head and neck · Wholesale trade
Jul 5, 2022 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Amputation
An employee was pulling waste lumber material onto a conveyor deck when their left little finger got caught in a conveyor chain, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1607293
Mar 17, 2022 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was cutting boards at the end of a production line with a suspended circular saw. The employee's hand contacted the saw when the board the employee was holding kicked back, resulting in a lacerated middle finger.
Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing
Nov 1, 2021 · Collier Construction Services, LLC Hospitalized
Two employees were doing masonry work from a tubular welded-frame scaffold about 20 feet above the ground. Work stopped so they could install additional planking above. As an employee was moving a scaffold plank upward, the planks fell down onto him, causing him in turn to fall to the ground below. He suffered head lacerations and fractures to the head and collarbone.
Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1561769
Mar 1, 2019 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning glue off a glue machine when their arm became caught in the roller and frame of the machine. The right arm was fractured.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Arm(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1383296
Apr 24, 2018 · Appalachian Wood Floors Amputation
An employee was operating a shaper machine (table mounted router) when the employee's hand slipped and went into the bit resulting in amputation of skin on the left middle fingertip.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Sep 21, 2017 · Southern Ohio Medical Center Hospitalized
On September 21, 2017, an employee was troubleshooting an HVAC system when the employee's elbow came in contact with an energized electrical wire (460-VAC). The employee was shocked and was hospitalized.
Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts · Body systems · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1267014
Aug 3, 2017 · United States Postal Service Hospitalized
An employee was approaching a residence to deliver mail when he stepped onto the porch and fell, fracturing his hip. He was hospitalized overnight.
Fall on same level · Hip(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Apr 14, 2017 · Southern Ohio Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee experienced an allergic reaction while mixing an oral contrast medium, suffering respiratory distress and hives.
Exposure to other harmful substances · Body systems · Health care and social assistance
Nov 10, 2016 · Appalachian Wood Floors Amputation
On November 10, 2016, an employee was cleaning glue machine rollers when his hand was pulled into the chain and sprocket area, partially amputating his ring and pinky fingers.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1192396
Mar 27, 2016 · Southern Ohio Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee was walking through the parking lot and tripped over a curb at the crosswalk. The employee broke their left arm.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Arm(s) · Health care and social assistance
Jan 29, 2016 · Maxim Crane Works, L.P. Hospitalized
An employee was injured on 1/29/16 when the crane gave away underneath soft ground and pinned the employee's right leg underneath the outrigger. The wooden mat was broken.
Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport (other) · Leg(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1123960
Oct 22, 2015 · Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was in training on a new line when a piece of wood flooring came loose under the vacuum lift. The machine was turned off, but remained energized. The employee climbed over the fence around the vacuum lift, tripping a sensor, and the vacuum lift came down on him with wood flooring attached. The employee suffered fractured back bones and broken ribs.
Caught in running equipment or machinery (other) · Multiple trunk locations · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1102208
May 12, 2015 · Cosam Contracting, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee fell approximately 13 feet through a roof working surface while preforming a roof replacement project.
Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet · Nonclassifiable · Construction · OSHA inspection 1062748
After a workplace injury in Ohio
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.
Personal injury lawyers in Portsmouth
Lawbamba lists 3 personal injury lawyers with an office in Portsmouth, Ohio, the practice area that deals with the workplace injury and OSHA inspection records on this page. These 3 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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