Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at KME Kovatch, 1 Industrial Complex, NESQUEHONING, PENNSYLVANIA 18240
on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was moving a door panel when the door panel fell off the horse, causing the employee to fall to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right patella.
An employee was pulling on a bale of corrugated cardboard boxes that were on a conveyor. The straps on the bale failed and the employee fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a fractured femur and/or hip.
On December 27, 2023, an employee was delivering mail to an apartment complex when their knee gave out and they fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a left tibia fracture.
An employee was walking to the inventory cage when her ankle gave out and she fell to the floor. The employee sustained a femur fracture and was hospitalized.
An employee was dislodging a pallet that was stuck when boxes of product fell onto them, causing them to fall to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured femur.
An employee was walking down a hallway In front of offices when she tripped over a door mat and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured left femur.
An employee was loading seats in the back of a bus. They were using their left hand to pull a seat conveyor from the rear of the bus and had their right hand on the rear of the conveyor. The seat platform folded down, pinching their right index finger between the platform and the conveyor. The employee sustained a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation.
On April 8, 2025, an employee was wheeling a utility cart containing transport parts and was backing out of a door when the cart tipped onto the employee and they fell. The parts fell onto the employee, resulting in hospitalization with knee, foot, and back pain.
An employee was stepping from the cab of a truck onto a portable ladder when the ladder slid, causing the employee to fall to the concrete shop floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their nose, left wrist, and right humerus.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.