Bassett Industries, Inc.

An employee was pushing carts into the chute area for customers to retrieve. The first of six carts struck the wall and caused the other carts to bounce back and strike the employee. The carts knocked the employee to the ground and she sustained a back injury.

An employee was loading a portable storage container onto a dovetail trailer. This requires hooking up a bridle to the container and lifting the container enough for the dovetail to begin to slide under it. The employee reached and held the bridle lock to allow the trailer to move under it when the trailer moved backward instead of forward and caught his finger. The employee's right middle finger was amputated between the fingernail and the first knuckle.

An employee was reaching over a small stack of steel billets on the ground to cut a strap. When the strap was cut, one of the billets (weighing 5,182 pounds) rolled down onto his right leg. He was pinned and suffered a broken tibia. The incident occurred while the employee was training.

On June 7, 2023, employees were unloading a box truck and rolling a reel of 2-inch plastic pipe to the back of the truck. As the employees were rolling the reel, the edge of the steel frame of the reel contacted the side of the truck. The injured employee s right little finger was caught between the reel and the truck, resulting in a laceration and fracture as well as a little finger amputation.

Employees were using a dolly to remove a trash compactor unit from a residential home. As they began to transport it out of the room and to the outside, the dolly encountered uneven ground. This caused the dolly and the unit to move quicker than expected. The injured employee's left hand was then caught between a nearby concrete column and the compactor unit, resulting in fractures of the left ring and middle fingers that required amputation.

An employee was pulling a steel parts handcart when its wheels caught on something and locked up. The cart fell backward. The cart handle struck the middle of the employee's right foot, breaking bones. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was cutting wood with a circular saw. The saw kicked back, and its blade cut three fingers on the employee's right hand, resulting in an amputation.

An employee was installing a door from an A-frame ladder. He fell from the ladder, landed on his feet about 8 feet below, and suffered a broken tibia.

An employee was leaving the building at the end of the day when she missed a step and fell, fracturing her right foot.

Two employees were running a CNC folder machine. The injured employee went to adjust the metal and the machine came down, crushing her forearms. Her left arm was fractured and both arms required stitches.

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.