AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING INC.

An employee was using a motorized chain hoist to lift a pump weighing 600 to 700 pounds onto a working table. The hoist, which weighed approximately 100 pounds, fell from an overhead crane onto the employee s fingers, resulting in a finger amputation.

An employee was clearing a blockage of sugar when his finger contacted a moving screw conveyor. The employee's fingertip was amputated. The conveyor was not locked out at the time.

An employee was attempting to step onto a rolling rail car when his foot slipped and his right foot went under the rail car wheel amputating all five toes.

An employee became overheated and lost consciousness while prepping a railroad car to bulk load sugar onto it. The employee suffered from heat stroke/heat exhaustion/heat stress.

An employee fell from the top of a tanker truck to the ground, breaking an ankle.

An employee was unloading a trailer when a box fell and struck the employee in the face. The employee suffered a concussion and was hospitalized.

An employee had been cutting lumber for a shed wall. A load of 16-foot trim pieces fell onto the employee causing vertebrae and ankle fractures.

An employee was unloading 30-foot 2-inch barrels from a pan holding about 20 barrels. The barrels tipped over, striking and breaking both of the employee's lower legs.

An employee was in a sandblasting area, preparing the surface of a plate heat exchanger frame for painting. The frame fell on the employee, who suffered fractures to vertebrae, the neck, pelvis, and rib cage; and punctured lungs.

An employee was installing doors when one of the doors fell on him, fracturing his lower leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was adjusting the flat scratcher of a sweep cultivator when the metal tube of the scratcher slid down and caught the tip of the employee's left thumb between the pipe and C-clamp. The employee sustained a left thumb tip amputation.

A crew was building a scaffold inside a furnace. An employee was stabilizing the mudsill and jack as a 10-foot scaffold leg was being connected. The scaffold leg came in contact with the furnace wall, causing a piece of refractory brick to fall. It struck the right side of the employee's mid-back, causing a contusion.

Employees were reinstalling the frame of a mechanical guard onto a raw sugar mixer. A chain fall was used to position the frame so it's weight was resting on the lower pedestal. The chain block was then unhooked, and an employee used a hammer to position the frame so the top bolt holes would be aligned. The bottom of the frame slipped off the pedestal and the frame fell two feet down onto the employee's right arm causing fractures to the radius and ulna.

An employee was tasked with identifying a conveyor system failure. When the employee opened the conveyor, a flash fire occurred. The employee sustained burns to the hands and face and was hospitalized.

An employee was operating package filling equipment when he attempted to loosen clumped sugar in the equipment piping and injured his right hand. He was hospitalized with fractures to four fingers on his right hand.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.