Severe Workplace Injuries in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Employers in Lancaster reported 201 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through October 2025: 156 workers hospitalized and 58 amputations (29% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 58 of them.
Reports by year
Industries
How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Lancaster since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 410 inspections at Lancaster workplaces, and 205 of them (50%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 303 serious, 3 willful and 14 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $1,719,477.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| F.E. Horst Masonry, LLC (planned, details) | 6 | $8,000 |
| S & M Siding, LLC (other, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $4,824 |
| Mk Construction LLC (other, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $3,547 |
| C-B Tool Co (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $1,929 |
| Sw Contractor, LLC. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $4,965 |
| Tip-Top Roofing Solutions, LLC (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $1,800 |
| Miranda Contractors & Roofing, LLC (planned, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $6,562 |
| The Way Companies, Inc. (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $9,900 |
| Maugus Manufacturing Incorporated (planned, details) | 4 (2 serious+) | $7,500 |
| All America Threaded Products, Inc. (referral, details) | 5 (2 serious+) | $17,000 |
| Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company Of Pennsylvania, Inc. (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $22,000 |
| Kettleworks, LLC (referral, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $10,215 |
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 30 newest severe injury reports from Lancaster employers, as OSHA published them.
Oct 29, 2025 · Zimmerman & Herr Amputation
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Construction
Oct 1, 2025 · Good's Disposal Service, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was standing on the driver side rear step of a trash truck while traveling down a road to collect residential trash. The employee went to signal the driver and slipped off the step while the truck was traveling 8-9 miles per hour. He fell 18 inches to the ground and was hospitalized with a fractured ankle that required surgery.
Roadway noncollision fall or jump from moving vehicle · Ankle(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Aug 31, 2025 · Securitas Security Services USA Hospitalized
An employee was walking out of the guard shack to get numbers from trailers when they slipped/tripped and fell off a curb to the pavement below. The employee was hospitalized with a hip injury.
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Hip joint(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Aug 28, 2025 · KettleWorks, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was moving three stacked bins with a pallet jack in the centering room. While turning, the bins struck a wall-mounted control panel, causing an unopened kettle behind the employee to open. Heated bone broth was released. The employee went to close the kettle and came in contact with the hot broth (approximately 200 degrees) resulting in second-degree burns to their legs.
Contact with hot objects or substances · Leg(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1846934
Jul 9, 2025 · Safelite AutoGlass Hospitalized
An employee was at a customer's address replacing a car windshield when he started to feel lightheaded and dizzy. The employee sustained heat stroke.
Exposure to environmental heat outdoor · Body systems · Other services
Jun 30, 2025 · Flagger Force Hospitalized
An employee was in their personal vehicle awaiting instructions from the construction contractor on posting traffic cones. The driver of a motor vehicle swerved to avoid a steel plate in the roadway and struck the employee's car. The employee was hospitalized with four fractured ribs.
Roadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving and standing vehicle · Rib(s), oblique area · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Jun 1, 2025 · Mavis Tire Supply LLC Hospitalized
An employee was unloading tires on a pickup truck when they slipped off the back of the truck and fell, hitting their head on the floor. The employee sustained a severe head injury.
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Brain · Retail
May 21, 2025 · Red Rose Interior, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was moving a cart carrying stainless steel plating. The cart tipped over, crushing the employee's leg. The employee sustained a fractured right femur and hip.
Struck by object tipping over · Hip(s) and leg(s) (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1826854
Mar 17, 2025 · Dutch Gold Honey, Inc. Amputation
A hoist used for filter bags was doubled over itself and an employee was untwisting/untangling its cable. The hoist moved up instead of down when activated, due to the bags, and caught the employee's left middle finger. The employee sustained the amputation of about inch of the fingertip.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1814850
Mar 10, 2025 · Steel Fab Enterprises Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was guiding a piece into place during steel erection. The employee pushed the piece to turn it and it struck the nearby power line. The employee suffered third-degree burns to their arm and second-degree burns to their calf.
Indirect exposure to electricity greater than 220 volts · Upper and lower extremities (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1812530
Feb 12, 2025 · All America Threaded Products, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was working at a threader machine. A spindle caught her sweatshirt. She was pulled into the machine, which pulled off her hooded sweatshirt and pulled in her hair. She suffered a scalping and was hospitalized.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Scalp · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1804895
Jan 15, 2025 · The Hain Celestial Group Inc Hospitalized
An employee was speaking with another employee who was on a forklift. The other employee began moving the forklift, but it reversed instead of moving forward. The back wheel of the forklift struck the injured employee's left foot, causing her to fall to the ground. She suffered injuries to her left foot and right knee.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Foot(feet) and knee(s) · Manufacturing
Jan 7, 2025 · Landscape Impressions Amputation
An employee was using a snowblower to remove snow at a residential property and amputated two fingers.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other finger(s) (other) · Professional and technical services
Jan 7, 2025 · Omnimax International, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was feeding plastic scraps into a re-grinder machine when they slipped and struck the left side of their body against the machine. The employee sustained a jaw injury, fractured ribs, and damage to their spleen.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Multiple trunk locations · Manufacturing
Dec 27, 2024 · Goodhart Sons, Inc. Amputation
An employee was clearing metal debris from a horizontal band saw after cutting a metal beam when their right glove contacted the blade, resulting in amputation of the right little finger and injuries to two other fingers.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1797069
Dec 18, 2024 · AHF Parent Holding Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was operating a forklift to return an empty metal trash bin that was on the forks. The forklift struck a small stone wall next to the roadway and rolled over. They suffered multiple lacerations and leg fractures.
Collision with stationary object, nonroadway · Leg(s) · Manufacturing
Oct 22, 2024 · L&W Supply Lancaster, PA Hospitalized
An employee was on top of a 5-foot stack of drywall on the back of a truck bed to strap down the material. While climbing approximately 1 foot down to the next level of the drywall stack, the employee slipped and fell onto another stack of drywall on the trailer bed, resulting in a fractured pelvis.
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Pelvis · Wholesale trade
Oct 9, 2024 · Kohl Building Products, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was operating a knuckle boom fork truck. He was putting the forks back into the truck when they got stuck. When the employee was backing the forks out, they sprang forward and struck his chest, knocking him to the ground. The employee sustained broken ribs and was hospitalized.
Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object · Rib(s), oblique area · Retail
Aug 29, 2024 · AHF Parent Holding Inc. Amputation
An employee was conducting a paper test after changing a roll on the assembly line when paper began jamming at the outfeed conveyor. As the employee was clearing the jam, their right thumb was caught in the nip point between a belt and a drive gear resulting in degloving injuries. The tip of their thumb was surgically amputated.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing
Aug 18, 2024 · R & T Mechanical Inc Hospitalized
An employee was unbolting an 8-inch metal sleeve. When all the bolts were out of the sleeve, the sleeve sprung free causing it to come out of the employee's grasp and fall on their left forearm. The piece of sleeve had a sharp edge that cut the employee's left forearm and the employee was hospitalized.
Struck by object dropped by person · Forearm(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 18, 2024 · Calvary Fellowship Homes Hospitalized
An employee was walking from the fax machine, tripped, and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a broken left hip.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Hip joint(s) · Health care and social assistance
Jul 17, 2024 · Sam S. Smucker & Sons, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was operating a laser cutting machine in the laser shop. He was removing a piece of scrap sheet metal and placing it into the scrap/recycling bin when it hit the side of the bin and fell over the side, outside of the bin. While retrieving it, his right hand got caught on the edge of the scrap bin. The sheet metal piece fell to the floor and the rest of the sheet metal from the machine fell on his arm. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured arm and required surgery.
Struck by other falling object (other) · Arm(s) · Construction
Jun 26, 2024 · High Associates, Ltd. Hospitalized
An employee was assisting in the placement of a boulder in a flower bed using a tractor when the boulder shifted and struck him in the left ankle, fracturing it.
Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running · Ankle(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Jun 11, 2024 · Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital Hospitalized
An employee was returning an IV pole to the equipment storage room when she tripped over cords plugged into the wall and fell to the floor fracturing her hip and pelvis.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Trunk and other lower extremities · Health care and social assistance
May 26, 2024 · Arconic, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was adjusting the limiter switch on an auger on the roof when their glove was caught in a rotating part (flag) and their hand was pinched between the auger and the limiter switch and lacerated.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Hand(s), finger(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1754555
May 22, 2024 · U.S. Postal Service Hospitalized
An employee was climbing the loading dock to enter the building when they tripped on the dock plate, fell, and hit their head. They were hospitalized.
Fall, slip, trip · Brain · Transportation and warehousing
May 14, 2024 · TreeHouse Foods, Inc Hospitalized
While cleaning the dough processing belt, an employee's right arm was caught in the belt rollers and fractured.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Arm(s) · Manufacturing
May 14, 2024 · Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Hospitalized
An employee tripped while walking and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured shoulder.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e) · Health care and social assistance
May 2, 2024 · METZ CULINARY MANAGEMENT, INC. Amputation
An employee was unloading trays from a dining hall conveyor belt. They were removing a drink cup that had become stuck and sustained an amputation of about one-half inch of their left index finger.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Other finger(s) (other) · Hotels and restaurants
Feb 29, 2024 · Harden Architectural Security Products, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was setting a welding fixture with a hammer when the hammer fractured his thumb.
Injured by object held or wielded by person · Thumb(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1736826
After a workplace injury in Pennsylvania
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 Lancaster
Lawbamba lists 23 workers compensation lawyers with an office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 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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