COMPANION INDUSTRIES INC

An employee was riding the rear step of a garbage truck while the truck was traveling to the next house along the collection route. The vehicle struck against a roadside tree. The employee sustained multiple fractures.

An employee was riding on the back of a trash truck when they were pinched between the truck and a utility pole. The employee sustained a fractured right hip.

An employee was moving a manlift away from a truck when it struck a power line. The employee sustained electric shock.

An employee was operating a sweeper truck and hit a guardrail, suffering a deep laceration above his right ankle.

An employee was riding on the rear step of a garbage truck when the driver moved the vehicle onto the shoulder to avoid an oncoming vehicle. The employee was caught between the truck and a tree, suffering a rib fracture and chest contusion.

An employee was using a box cutter when it cut the tip of his left thumb resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was inspecting and packing parts when a machine in the area had a die malfunction. This die controls the flow of molten metal. Once it malfunctioned, the molten metal bled into the water line and started spraying into the area where the employee was located. The employee was hospitalized to treat burns to her arm, chest, and mouth.

An employee was loading components into fixtures on an automated CNC Line. He was moving a J-Hook lifting apparatus by hand from its storage location to the raw material area in order to pick up a piece of steel. The employee had the crane remote and the neck of the J-Hook apparatus in his right hand. When he went to set the J-Hook down on the floor, he placed his left middle finger inside of the lifting loop of the magnet. As he manually lowered the J-Hook to the floor by the neck, it fell. As the neck dropped to the floor, the magnet shifted and the lifting loop of the magnet retracted into the bracket of the J-Hook, fracturing and amputating the fingertip.

An employee was operating a two-handed punch press. When the foot pedal was actuated, the machine cycled and came down onto his left hand causing severe lacerations to the index, middle, and ring fingers to the bone.

An employee was cutting material on a band saw and amputated his left ring fingertip.

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.