Air King America LLC

An employee was walking in an aisle when a forklift backed up over her foot, resulting in a skin injury that required surgery to repair.

An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.

An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.

An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.

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.