Kinro Composites

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee was cutting a 7-foot pipe using a band saw. He went to wipe moisture off the pipe with a rag and the rag became entangled in the moving saw blade, pulling his right hand into the blade. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the fourth distal phalanx and third digit.

An employee was working in the grinding room on a production line for bathtubs. The tubs are laid on a conveyor and have wooden blocks for feet. The conveyor moves the tubs onto a saw that cuts off the wooden blocks. The saws are protected by expandable metal guards. The conveyor then moves the tubs through an area lined with coarse horsehair brushes before reaching the discharge area, where the employee was working. The employee was drilling a hole behind the metal guarding when their right hand went into the horsehair brush area and contacted a saw blade, resulting in a laceration on the back of their right hand that required surgery.

An employee was taking a part out of a press. The press's injector pin came down on his right big toe, crushing it. He was hospitalized.

An employee was cleaning saw dust off of a straight line rip saw after turning it off when his fingers contacted the blade that was still spinning, resulting in the amputations of the left middle and index fingertips to the first knuckle.

An employee was fusing two HDPE pipes in a machine when the machine amputated his left index and middle fingertips.

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.