Ball Corporation

An employee was walking down stairs, crossing over the conveyor, and fell. The employee sustained a severe laceration behind the right knee.

An employee was working on a press and went to remove aluminum scrap. The machine single-stroked one time, catching his right thumb between the punch and the bottom former. The thumb tip was amputated.

An employee was working in a robot area. His muscles began cramping in the morning and he was hospitalized that afternoon, suffering from heat stress.

On April 5, 2020, at approximately 2:30 AM, an employee was checking the chain tension on a discharge conveyor. His right index finger became pinched in the conveyor's chain and sprocket and was amputated.

Employees were waiting on a delivery truck to unstrap electrical panels and control panels for unloading. The driver of a tractor trailer unstrapped the electrical and control panels so the employees could unload them. An electrical panel slipped and hit a control panel, which then struck the injured employee, knocking him to the ground where he hit his head on the concrete. He was hospitalized with a contusion to the back of the head and ligament damage to his right knee.

A crew was pulling a 4-inch plastic gas pipe off a reel and straightening it for installation. The injured employee stepped up on the trailer to cut the last band holding the pipe in the coil on the reel. As he turned to step off the trailer, the end of the pipe rotated and sprung out of the cage surrounding the coil, striking the employee on the side of the head and knocking him off of the trailer into the roadway. The employee suffered head trauma that required hospitalization.

An employee and a co-worker were performing a pick inside a clear well. They rigged the skid pan that was full of broken concrete. When lifting, the load began to swing toward a wall. The employee tried to stop the skid pan from swinging and was struck by the pan, resulting in fractures to their left hip and wrist.

The employee had just completed refueling a lattice crane that was breaking up material and was winding the fuel hose back into the fuel truck when he was struck by the catwalk/stairs of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his backside, possible internal bleeding, and a broken hip.

An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.

An employee was lifting four bags of a lime blend weighing approximately 10,000 pounds using a crane. The load swung and pinned the employee against a structural I-beam, resulting in fractures to the hip and pelvis.

An employee was clearing a jam on a ring press. The press's secondary switch was activated, engaging it. It caught the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized and sustained the amputation of two fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

An employee was adjusting an air line on a scroll shear when a rotating gear caught his right ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was checking a conveyor belt chain when his right index finger came into contact with the moving chain. He suffered a partial amputation to the right index finger.

On April 1, 2025, at 9:45 p.m. an employee's arm was pulled into a lathe and fractured. The employee was hospitalized.

A paint room operator's hand was caught in the exit conveyor of an automated paint booth, resulting in a left middle finger amputation.

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.