Shop Vac Corporation

An employee was stacking columns of boxes. The boxes became unstable and began to fall. The employee attempted to get out of the way and tripped and fell to the floor, breaking their right hip.

An employee was working near a conveyor that carried totes of tank bottoms. Another employee stopped the upstream. The employee placed a tank bottom on the stopped conveyor and it fell off. The employee tried to catch it, and the tank bottom lacerated the employee's right inner forearm. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was walking down the hallway when they tripped and fell to the floor, fracturing their right wrist.

An employee was walking down the hall to retrieve a vacuum when they stumbled and fell to the floor. The employee suffered wrist bruises and a kneecap fracture that required surgery.

An employee was carrying furniture backward during a delivery when he tripped and broke his right ankle.

An employee was installing a compressor piston. He tripped and fell backward while the piston was in his lap. As he landed, the little finger of his left hand became caught between the piston and compressor piping resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip. The employee required stitches and the fingertip was reattached.

An employee was doing an oil change. He was walking to get his oil jug when he tripped on an open lift pad, and fell to the ground landing on his right side. The employee sustained a broken right femur and was hospitalized.

An employee was removing product (a transformer radiator weighing approximately 2,640 pounds) from the paint room utilizing an overhead drop-crane system. The employee inspected the product in the drop section and started to lower the load. The product fell out of the rigging and hit the ground. It then tipped, pinning the employee against a desk. The employee was hospitalized with collapsed lungs, a dislocated sternum, a head injury requiring staples, and fractures to their ribs and wrists/lower arms.

An employee was retrieving an empty blue bin. When he turned around, he tripped over a skid and fell to the floor, striking his head and sustaining injuries to his hip and foot. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip.

An employee was buffing a part on a buffing machine when their glove was caught by the rotating spindle, resulting in lacerations to their arm.

An employee was troubleshooting a cutter machine to see why the blade was not spinning. The power button on the machine was pressed and the blade contacted his right little finger, resulting in a laceration and an amputation. The machine was energized at the time of the incident.

An employee was operating a horizontal press. As the employee reached for their work badge, the press cycled onto their little finger and amputated a quarter-inch of the tip.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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.