Mowhawk Industries, Inc.

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee was performing startup activities on a print line. The employee was scraping dry ink from the bottom of the doctor blade assembly with a putty knife. The back of her right hand came in contact with the doctor blade, which penetrated her cut-resistant work glove and caused a laceration injury to the back of her hand with damage to a tendon. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was loading bag resins onto a bag dumping station and wrapping/bundling up empty bags for disposal. The employee was dislodging a broken piece of wood that jammed in the conveyor's chain and sprocket when their gloved hand was caught in the conveyor, resulting in a finger amputation.

An employee was inserting a rug into a roller shaft opening when the machine started and pulled her left hand into the roller shaft opening, resulting in amputation of the left ring finger.

An employee was pushing a die cart into position at a press machine. As the cart rolled into position, her left ring and middle fingers were crushed and broken between the cart and frame of the press machine.

An employee was attempting to manually adjust the position of a wall hanging fan when two of her fingers entered the cage and were struck by the metal fan blades. She suffered lacerations and a partial right ring finger amputation.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.