Ferco Tech

An employee was entering an area through an opening in a plastic curtain barricade. The employee's foot got caught on the bottom of the curtain and she fell to the concrete floor, breaking both wrists.

The injured employee was standing at the base of a ladder assisting another employee install a TV on a wall. The TV was dropped, striking the employee. They sustained a head injury.

An employee and a colleague were moving two pieces of rebar when a tie was cut. The employee holding the rebar dropped it while it was above the injured employee's hands, resulting in partial amputation to their left middle finger.

An employee was bracing an extension ladder while his coworker installed a 10-foot, 40-45-pound pipe. The pipe fell onto the injured employee's head and he sustained a hematoma, C3 and C4 vertebral fractures and a forehead laceration.

An employee was helping to lift a press roll in to fix an issue that was occurring. A co-worker lost their grip and the press roll fell onto the injured employee's left index finger, resulting in a crush injury and amputation.

Three employees were removing equipment from an old fermentation room at a bakery. They were using two bakery dollies to remove metal plates from the floor of the room. One of them was holding one of the metal dollies with his right hand on the side of the dolly, as a plate was being centered on the two dollies. The plate slipped and struck his right thumb, which was amputated near the last joint.

During a dust baghouse inspection, a discharge chute plugged up with grain debris. An employee went to remove the debris and his finger got caught in the rotary airlock. The employee sustained a laceration to their right middle finger that resulted in a partial amputation.

An employee was shutting down at the end of a shift when he noticed dust was jamming his machine. When the employee cleared the jam, his fingers made contact with the rotary airlock blade, resulting in the amputation of the middle finger right below the fingernail and the ring fingertip.

An employee was swapping barrels under a dust cyclone. The employee turned around and ran into an adjacent barrel and lost balance. His right hand went up the sock that surrounded the bottom of the dust collector and the rotating airlock blade partially amputated his index and middle fingers. The machine was not guarded at the time.

An employee was installing a new gear in a hand-operated flake mill and trying to line up the gear with a worm screw shaft approximately 18 inches long and weighing 30 pounds. The employee's left thumb was pinched between the shaft and the gear, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was entering an area through an opening in a plastic curtain barricade. The employee's foot got caught on the bottom of the curtain and she fell to the concrete floor, breaking both wrists.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.