Medtronic

The employee sprayed her hands with isopropyl alcohol (IPA) disinfectant. While using the alcohol and rubbing her hands, droplets of IPA fell to the floor. When the employee turned to walk away, her right foot slipped on the IPA droplets and she fell to the floor, landing on her right side and fracturing her right hip. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was fixing ceiling tiles while working from a ladder when they fell to the floor and sustained a hip fracture.

An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.

An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.

An employee was coming down a portable ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a right forearm fracture.

On May 28, 2025, two maintenance employees were working on a flipper mechanism that was intermittently getting stuck during its vertical movement cycle. An employee began removing the bottom motor of the flipper assembly. The gearbox unexpectedly detached along with the motor. This caused the flipper arm (weighing ~250 pounds) to lose mechanical support and fall, striking an employee. The flipper arm caused injuries to both of his arms. His wrist and fingers were injured and he sustained fractures to an elbow. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was assisting another employee to identify equipment on the lower level of the catwalk. His back was to the ladder opening. When he turned around, he stepped into the opening for the catwalk ladder. The employee's right arm struck the catwalk as he fell through the ladder opening, resulting in a fractured wrist.

An employee was walking from her car to a building entrance. She tripped on a pallet and fell, suffering a fractured and dislocated shoulder.

A trainer was training a new employee on how to use a crimping machine. While the trainer was reaching to grab a device, the machine was activated and amputated the employee's right index fingertip.

An employee was walking and tripped and fell resulting in a fractured arm.

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.