MOTION INDUSTRIES

An employee was getting out of the car when the strap on his bag broke. As he reached to grab his laptop, his walker moved, and the employee slipped and fell. The employee underwent hip surgery.

An employee was operating an order picker. As he was lowering it, his right ring finger was caught between its head rest and the shelf rack, causing a partial amputation at the tip.

An employee was backing a forklift up to a rack and his leg became lodged between the forklift and the rack. He suffered damaged muscle tissues on the left leg.

An employee was taping a pipe and using a utility knife when the knife lacerated his left ring finger.

An employee attempted to stop a moving belt and sheave when his fingers were caught in the rotating parts, amputating the second, third, and fourth digit fingertips on his left hand.

On May 22, 2023, an employee was working as a framer and knelt on a nail that was on the ground. The nail penetrated his knee and entered the bone. He was hospitalized.

An employee was stepping down from one level to another, about 10 inches below, when he lost his balance and stepped on a protruding 3/8-inch rod. The rod punctured the sole of his right foot.

An employee was tearing a roof off when they walked onto a nail and sustained sepsis and blood clots in the left foot.

An employee was carrying a box of screws. The box flipped over and screws fell to the floor. One of them punctured his bootheel and the bottom of his right foot.

An employee was walking on the loading dock when a nail entered the sole of his shoe and punctured his foot. The employee sustained an infection and was hospitalized.

An employee was installing a fuse in a machine cabinet. An arc flash burned the employee's left arm, and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was standing on the back of a flatbed truck while a forklift was being used to load a shelving unit onto the truck. The shelving unit slid off and struck the employee, who suffered contusions to the head and collarbone area.

An employee was operating an order picker that was raised 20 inches when they stepped backward and fell off the platform to the concrete floor. The employee struck their head on the floor, resulting in hospitalization with a head injury.

An employee was operating a side loader designed for narrow aisles to pick up pans filled with steel, which include 12-foot pans and others with 20-24 foot pans. The employee pulled the required amounts from the pans using a crane, and then packed and labeled the items for shipment to the loading dock. The side loader struck a pan, causing the cab to detach and land on the employee's leg, resulting in a fracture.

A delivery driver was helping a customer unload a strut. The banding around the strut broke loose and lacerated the employee's lower left leg. The employee was hospitalized and required stitches and surgery to repair the patellar tendon.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.