Severe Workplace Injuries in West Bend, Wisconsin
Employers in West Bend reported 20 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2016 through October 2025: 14 workers hospitalized and 11 amputations (55% 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 West Bend since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 66 inspections at West Bend workplaces, and 46 of them (70%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 102 serious, 0 willful and 7 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $485,195.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Hernandez (other, details) | 6 (6 serious+) | $140,441 |
| A.M. Const., Inc. (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $9,930 |
| Regal Ware, Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $5,427 |
| Regal Ware, Inc. (complaint, details) | 14 (13 serious+) | $25,000 |
| Hawk Research Laboratories, LLC (complaint, details) | 8 (8 serious+) | $35,584 |
| Midwest Assembly, Warehouse And Distribution, LLC (planned, details) | 4 (3 serious+) | $2,954 |
| Regal Ware, Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $3,500 |
| Regal Ware, Inc. (referral, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $16,384 |
| Carranza Builders LLC (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $4,800 |
| Regal Ware, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $6,500 |
| Coyote Roofing LLC (planned, details) | 6 (6 serious+) | $8,904 |
| Weasler Engineering, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $8,066 |
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 20 newest severe injury reports from West Bend employers, as OSHA published them.
Oct 21, 2025 · Meijer Stores Limited Partnership Hospitalized
An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.
Fall on same level (other) · Wrist(s) · Retail
May 27, 2025 · Schreiber Foods, Inc. Amputation
The injured employee was waiting near a machine while a maintenance technician was re-installing a pneumatic valve. The valve cycled and the injured employee's left index fingertip was caught in the valve. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1827842
Nov 1, 2024 · Regal Ware, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was buffing a part on a buffing machine when their glove was caught by the rotating spindle, resulting in lacerations to their arm.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Arm(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1786880
Apr 10, 2024 · Regal Ware, Inc. Amputation
An employee was operating a 12" disc sander when the metal part he was working on got caught and it pinched and lacerated his left thumb and then popped up and struck his upper lip. This resulted in an amputation to the left thumb.
Struck by running powered equipment irregular movement, kick back · Thumb(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1741739
Feb 16, 2024 · Weasler Engineering, Inc. Amputation
On February 16, 2024, an employee was using a cutoff saw to cut up plastic tubing. The saw amputated the employee's middle and ring fingers.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1730020
Jan 22, 2024 · Weasler Engineering, Inc. Amputation
An employee was centering a component on an air press for final assembly when the machine cycled and their left thumb tip was partially amputated.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1723143
Oct 11, 2023 · A.M Construction, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was working on a step ladder to connect timber framing when a backhoe struck the ladder. The employee fell and sustained rib fractures that required hospitalization.
Pedestrian vehicular incident (other) · Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Construction · OSHA inspection 1703150
Sep 25, 2023 · Wisconsin Green LLC Hospitalized
An employee was feeding sheets of corrugated paper product into the feed section of the die cutter. As he took a handful of sheets from the unit on the conveyor line and placed them into the hopper of the machine, the unit on the conveyor rolled off and struck the employee. He sustained a lower right leg fracture in two places.
Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Lower leg(s) · Manufacturing
Nov 2, 2022 · Schreiber Foods, Inc. Amputation
An employee was wrapping a pallet on a rotating shrink wrapper. Upon grabbing the pallet, their thumb was pinched between the pallet and the machine, resulting in an amputation to the tip of the right thumb.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1633459
Feb 24, 2021 · Matenaer Corporation Amputation
An employee was setting up a new press brake when his finger was caught between the press brake and a part. The tip of the employee's finger was amputated.
Caught in running equipment or machinery (other) · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Dec 16, 2020 · OMNNI Associates Inc Hospitalized
An employee slipped and fell on ice, suffering a head injury.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Brain · Professional and technical services
Sep 4, 2019 · Cole Manufacturing Corporation Amputation
An employee was operating a press brake when it caught his left middle finger, amputating it.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1429397
Jul 31, 2019 · DGS Heartland Hospitalized
An employee was standing by, waiting for other employees to finish stacking boxes. The lower boxes in the stack collapsed, causing the upper boxes to fall forward onto the employee breaking both legs.
Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Leg(s) · Manufacturing
Mar 28, 2018 · Squared Away Builders, Inc. Amputation
An employee was using a table saw when the blade partially amputated the employee's fingertip. The blade was unguarded at the time.
Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1306411
Oct 9, 2017 · Premier Workforce Solutions, LLC Hospitalized
An employee was shocked and fell from a ladder while changing out the ballast of a light fixture, suffering electrical burns and bumps/bruises from the fall.
Other fall to lower level · Nonclassifiable · Administrative, staffing and waste services · OSHA inspection 1269528
Sep 5, 2017 · M. M. Schranz Roofing, Inc. Hospitalized
On September 5, an employee fell approximately 10 feet off a canopy while repairing a roof. The employee suffered a fractured back.
Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Back, including spine, spinal cord · Construction · OSHA inspection 1262140
Jun 22, 2017 · Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc. Amputation
An employee's fingertip was crushed between a part and the fixture holding the part, requiring surgical amputation.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Mar 16, 2017 · Matenaer Corporation Amputation
An employee was clearing a jam on the slitter machine and amputated a fingertip.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fingertip(s) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1223090
Oct 12, 2016 · Matenaer Corporation Amputation
An employee suffered an amputation when a die press fell on his hand.
Struck by falling object or equipment · Hand(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1184494
Sep 13, 2016 · Homes for Independent Living of Wisconsin LLC Hospitalized
An employee was trying to de-escalate a resident having a mental breakdown. The resident sprayed the entire contents of a fire extinguisher in the basement of the building. The employee inhaled the fire extinguisher contents and experienced breathing distress, requiring hospitalization.
Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Body systems · Health care and social assistance
After a workplace injury in Wisconsin
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 West Bend
Lawbamba lists 3 personal injury lawyers with an office in West Bend, Wisconsin, 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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