Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc., 197 West Banks Expressway, GRETNA, LOUISIANA 70053
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was loading his grocery-delivering cart at a customer's location when he lost his footing while tipping the cart over and fell backwards. The loaded cart fell on his right thumb amputating it above the first knuckle.
An employee suffered a dislocated shoulder while lifting a case of product. The employee then suffered a negative reaction to medication provided, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was walking through a warehouse when a forklift operator reversed the forklift over the employee's left foot, removing skin and partially amputating the foot.
An employee at the warehouse placed a 35-pound box of degreaser on the forks of a motorized stand-on powered industrial vehicle and hit the wrong button, causing the PIV to move backwards and pin the employee against the rack system. The employee suffered a crushing fracture to the left leg.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
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 picking items from the freezer section of the warehouse. When he stepped down onto the floor, he turned on the planted foot, and felt a "pop" and pain in his knee. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated knee and two torn tendons. He required surgery to repair the tendons.
At 7:40 a.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was unloading a bulkhead at a dock door. As he pulled the bulkhead out of a trailer, its plastic lip caught on the dock plate, causing the employee to fall and twist his left leg, knee, and hip. The hip was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.