BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATION

An employee was cleaning a printing press when his right arm was caught and fractured in a roller.

An employee was attempting to unjam a stacker machine when the employee's left hand was caught in the machine, amputating the index and middle fingertips.

An employee was running film on a production line. While trying to remove excess plastic film from a rubber roller, the employee suffered an avulsion injury to the left palm. The machine was running at the time of the incident. The employee was hospitalized for a skin graft.

An employee was manually feeding a plastic sheet through a hydraulic/pneumatic press set on manual mode. The press then cycled and caught his left thumb in the point of operation area, amputating his thumb tip.

An employee was installing a 15-amp breaker in an electrical panel when a 12-gauge ground wire touched the positive busbar of the panel, resulting in an arc flash. The employee sustained a second-degree burn to their left hand.

An employee was repairing an HVAC system in the drop tile ceiling of a conference room when they were shocked, causing them to fall from the ladder. The employee sustained burns to their right middle and ring fingers.

An employee was replacing a contactor inside an electrical panel attached directly to a press. The press itself was receiving power from another main panel. After replacing the contactor, the employee flipped the switch and an arc flash occurred, burning the employee's elbow, bicep, and neck.

An employee was attempting to switch a medium-voltage primary cable and install a 200-amp fuse barrel. The employee contacted the bottom of the switch gear cradle for the fuse barrel, causing an arc blast. The electricity entered the employee s left hand and exited his big toes, resulting in electric shock and burns to the left hand, arm, shoulder, and both feet. The employee was hospitalized.

On December 6, 2023, an employee of Duke Energy was working on a single-phase 120-/240-volt parallel service re-tap when a secondary flash occurred in an underground service. The employee suffered a second-degree burn to the face and was hospitalized.

An employee was installing a core on a spindle that was on an extruder. The employee's left little fingertip became caught between the core and an air chuck, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was setting up a forming machine when they fell approximately 3-4 feet from an elevated work platform onto a fixed railing. The employee sustained a back injury.

An employee was performing a production process that includes rough cutting a part using a band saw. When the employee went to push the part into the saw blade, the blade cut the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation.

An employee was opening an interlocked door to troubleshoot a servomotor. Once the motor was placed properly, the stored pneumatic energy moved the carriage and caused the employee to sustain an amputation to their thumb.

On May 5, 2022, an employee was driving a tractor-trailer to the next job site and had a seizure due to heat exhaustion.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.