AAF Flanders

An employee identified a damaged product on a line conveyor system, about to be caught up into a leg of operations. He tried to remove it as it approached a break in the covered line and his right index finger was caught in the product's nylon material. The chain and sprocket amputated the fingertip.

An employee was manually attaching a roll of media to a cardboard core on a rolling machine when another employee cycled the machine, causing the employee's right forearm to become pinned and fractured.

A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.

A patient kicked a police officer in the leg, rupturing their patellar tendon. The police officer required hospitalization and surgery.

A cashier was hit in the face by a customer. The employee sustained injuries to his head and face.

An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.

A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.

An employee was using a multimeter to ensure proper power supply to a newly repaired rotary screw air compressor before running a voltage test. An electrical arc flash occurred, resulting in burns to both the employee's hands and their face.

An employee was on the roof of a building, putting plastic around a dust collector, when their left middle finger was caught in a grinder insider the dust collector. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the left middle finger.

On August 4, 2025, an employee was fixing a jammed carousel and using a hook to manually adjust the carousel by hand. The hook slipped off and the employee fell to the concrete ground, resulting in hospitalization for a fractured right hip.

An employee was replacing a screen on a rooftop HVAC unit when the rotating exhaust fan blade contacted their right index finger, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization and the surgical amputation at the first knuckle.

An employee was changing an air filter when the door to the HVAC closed due to wind. The employee sustained an amputation to the left thumb at the nailbed.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.