Allen Distribution

An employee was on a boom lift, hanging cables. A rope attached to the boom lift's cage got caught in the boom lift's wheels and pinched the employee's right middle finger against the cage. The fingertip was amputated.

An employee was running the floor scrubber while other employees were cleaning up glass bottles. One glass bottle was put in the hopper and shattered. A glass fragment hit an employee's head and went into the employee's left eye causing a laceration to the cornea.

An employee was reversing a walkie-rider when she became caught between the equipment and a guardrail, breaking her right tibia and ankle. She was hospitalized.

An employee operated a powered industrial truck to load a truck trailer. Co-workers then found the employee laying face-up on the dock plate, bleeding from the head and unconscious. A possible tripping hazard was identified. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was unloading 5 pound bags of flour from a rail car when the load shifted and fell onto the employee breaking the employee's nose, spine, ribs and ankle.

An employee was between the trough and casting pit, cleaning a filter box at the end of a cast. His right foot slipped off the lid of the cast pan and went into an opening where molten aluminum goes into a trough. The employee contacted molten aluminum and sustained third degree burns to his right leg, ankle, and foot.

An employee was aloft in a tree cutting tree limbs. He was using a rope system and while repositioning, he slipped on moss that was on the tree bark and struck his knee awkwardly on the tree. The employee sustained a fractured kneecap and was hospitalized.

An employee lost their balance and slipped. Their hand contacted a turning rotary valve and their middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee was leaning against a fry station when his legs began to slip out from under him. He went to break his fall when his right arm entered the cooking oil. He suffered second- and third-degree burns to the arm.

An employee was unlashing (loosening chains) military vehicles on rail cars prior to offloading. As he stepped off the railcar and onto the ground, he twisted his left ankle in loose gravel alongside the rail track. He required surgery for a dislocated ankle.

An employee was picking an item in the picking area when a can of sweet peas fell onto his left ring finger, resulting in a partial amputation through the phalanx.

An employee was in the dairy cooler and bent down to get something for a customer. While standing up, the back of his head struck a top stock cart. The employee suffered a brain bleed and required surgery.

On June 5, 2025, an employee was pouring a bottle of antimicrobial produce wash when they inhaled the product and sustained irritation in their lungs and dizziness. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was walking when their foot caught on the edge of a plate connected to a beam and they fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured femur.

An employee was preparing to make a delivery to a store when his hand was caught in the side lift gate of the trailer. The employee sustained tissue amputations of his middle and ring fingertips and an open fracture to the tuft of his ring finger.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.