ABF Freight

A driver was securing freight in the back of a trailer. He climbed onto the converter gear to adjust the load and resecure the trailer door. He slipped off the converter gear and fell to the pavement, sustaining a right intertrochanteric femur fracture.

An employee was completing a merchandise delivery on the trench hold when a cage door closed, resulting in amputation of his left thumb.

An employee was handling pieces of flat steel bar when they fell on his foot, crushing the foot and causing a laceration.

An employee was at the back of a forklift changing out a propane tank when another forklift driver backed into the employee. The employee was pinned between the two forklifts and suffered a fractured pelvis.

An employee was unloading a freight trailer when a sheet of metal shifted, pinning the employee's leg against a pallet and breaking it.

An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.

An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.

An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was performing maintenance on a roll-up door that had four bolts removed from an L-bracket. Two still-installed bolts sheared off while under pressure, causing the employee's right hand to become caught between the bracket and a chain sprocket. The employee suffered an amputation to their middle finger.

An employee was hitching two cargo dollies together. A tug struck one of the dollies creating a nip point with the trailer hitch and tongue that amputated the employee's fingertip.

An employee was pulling a pallet with a pallet jack when a forklift backed up over the employee's foot, crushing it.

An employee was stepping up into a truck when he missed a step and fell to the ground, breaking his hip and requiring hospitalization.

An employee was operating a stand-up forklift truck when he struck a guardrail, lacerating his right leg and requiring hospitalization.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.