Briess Industries, Inc.

An employee was shutting down at the end of a shift when he noticed dust was jamming his machine. When the employee cleared the jam, his fingers made contact with the rotary airlock blade, resulting in the amputation of the middle finger right below the fingernail and the ring fingertip.

An employee was installing a new gear in a hand-operated flake mill and trying to line up the gear with a worm screw shaft approximately 18 inches long and weighing 30 pounds. The employee's left thumb was pinched between the shaft and the gear, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee contacted the moving auger while cleaning it. The employee sustained three fractured fingers and tendon and nerve damage. The auger was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee became ill while shoving grain inside a kiln, requiring hospitalization for dehydration.

An employee was preparing a cleaning solution for a weekly scheduled cleaning when two incompatible solutions were mixed, exposing the employee to chemical vapors. The employee experienced difficulty breathing.

An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.

An employee was straining hot water from a pot of rice when the water splashed onto them, resulting in burns to their chest, arms, shoulder, and back.

An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.

An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.

An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.

During a dust baghouse inspection, a discharge chute plugged up with grain debris. An employee went to remove the debris and his finger got caught in the rotary airlock. The employee sustained a laceration to their right middle finger that resulted in a partial amputation.

An employee was shutting down at the end of a shift when he noticed dust was jamming his machine. When the employee cleared the jam, his fingers made contact with the rotary airlock blade, resulting in the amputation of the middle finger right below the fingernail and the ring fingertip.

An employee was swapping barrels under a dust cyclone. The employee turned around and ran into an adjacent barrel and lost balance. His right hand went up the sock that surrounded the bottom of the dust collector and the rotating airlock blade partially amputated his index and middle fingers. The machine was not guarded at the time.

An employee was installing a new gear in a hand-operated flake mill and trying to line up the gear with a worm screw shaft approximately 18 inches long and weighing 30 pounds. The employee's left thumb was pinched between the shaft and the gear, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was entering an area through an opening in a plastic curtain barricade. The employee's foot got caught on the bottom of the curtain and she fell to the concrete floor, breaking both wrists.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.