Dayton Freight Lines, Inc.

At 1:36 p.m. on July 11, 2024, an employee was holding a truck door open with a strap as freight was unloaded from the truck. The employee was crushed between the carriage of a forklift and the back of the truck, suffering an injury to their right arm, a fractured right seventh rib, and an interior back hematoma. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was positioning freight that was not on a pallet. The employee was pulling on the banding when the banding broke, causing the employee to fall to the ground and sustain a tibia fracture.

On April 30, 2021, an employee was folding back a dock leveler after making a delivery. The lip plate did not automatically fold down when the push button was used, so the employee used their hand to push it down. The lip plate snapped downward all at once, and the three middle fingers on the employee's right hand were crushed.

An employee was moving steel flat bars from the forks of a forklift by hand when the material shifted and caught the employee's right middle finger. The fingertip was amputated.

An employee was operating a dock leveler at a loading dock. As the leveler rose, the employee's left hand was caught between the dock plate and the flap. The employee's left middle fingertip was amputated (with no bone loss).

An employee was fixing ceiling tiles while working from a ladder when they fell to the floor and sustained a hip fracture.

An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.

An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.

An employee was coming down a portable ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a right forearm fracture.

A truck driver was preparing a hose to load a chemical tanker trailer with sulfuric acid when sulfuric acid splashed the left side of their face and neck, causing skin burns.

An employee was disconnecting steam lines from a bulk liquid trailer. He disconnected a steam line located on a vapor recovery line when hot steam blew back onto him, resulting in burns to the left side of his abdomen, as well as his left arm and leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was driving a truck when it lost power. He pulled over, opened the hood, checked the engine, and opened the radiator cap. Pressure in the radiator caused hot fluid to spew over the employee, who suffered second-degree burns to the left arm, hand, and leg.

An employee was pulling apart pallets that were stuck together when they felt pain in their stomach. The employee was hospitalized with a hernia.

An employee was getting out of a truck tractor when he fell to the ground. He suffered a broken left femur.

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.