Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.

An employee was working to close a furnace door. The hydraulic mechanism that opens and closes the furnace door was non-operational and had been disconnected to allow the furnace door to be opened manually. As the employee was releasing the pins that held the door open, the door and the hydraulic cylinder fell, pinching their left hand between the hydraulic cylinder's base plate and the furnace. The employee suffered amputation of the little fingertip.

An employee was helping stack scrap wire. A fork truck was setting a carrier of scrap wire on top of another carrier. The scrap wire on the fork truck caught on the second carrier, and the carrier on the forks was pulled off. It struck the employee in the head, causing a concussion. The employee was hospitalized.

On July 7, 2025, at approximately 1:45 AM, an employee was moving vermiculite in a zinc pan with shovel. Molten zinc entered his left boot and caused burns to his shin and the top of his foot.

An employee was setting a floor plate on strand #2 while a rod in strand #1 cobbled at the break-out box and struck the employee's right foot. The employee sustained a puncture to their foot requiring surgery.

An employee was stringing wire around a drawing block at a wire machine. His left hand became caught between the wire and the drawing block, and he suffered an amputation to the ring fingertip.

An employee was performing finishing work on a residential driveway when they began to experience body cramps and were hospitalized for heat stress and dehydration.

An employee was staking tomato plants on a farm. The employee began to feel sick and collapsed, suffering from dehydration and heat shock.

An agent was participating in SWAT team selection and was performing various physical fitness skills including running and exercise intervals. The agent experienced dehydration and a muscular injury that required hospitalization.

An employee was traveling back from work when they became ill and experienced dizziness due to heat exhaustion.

On September 26, 2023, an employee was delivering packages when he began to feel ill with a pain in his side. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion and dehydration.

An employee was changing a section of pipe on a sulfuric acid tank when the pipe broke and acid splashed onto the left side of the employee's body, resulting in chemical burns to their left shoulder, the back of his arm, and his leg.

On August 1, 2025, at approximately 5:05 AM, an employee was applying a label to a spool of product on a crane when the employee s arm became caught between two points of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a degloving/avulsion injury to their right arm.

An employee was making an adjustment to a machine when his finger got caught in the machine. He sustained a partial amputation to the fifth finger on his left hand.

An employee was working on a wire drawing machine when three fingers on their right hand were caught between the rolls with the wire intact. The employee sustained an amputation to the middle and ring fingers and was hospitalized.

An employee was working at a threader machine. A spindle caught her sweatshirt. She was pulled into the machine, which pulled off her hooded sweatshirt and pulled in her hair. She suffered a scalping and was hospitalized.

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.