Mount Vernon Mills

On August 25, 2025, a machine operator was working on the heat-set end of a textile bleach/prep range machine. He was running leader cloth and it was bunching up. He climbed a catwalk so he could reach the cloth and flatten it out. His right hand was caught in a nip roll while adjusting the cloth. The employee's middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

An employee was loading a ball warp onto a cart. The cart tilted and the ball warp fell on him causing a fractured left pelvic bone.

An employee was working on a slasher when the beam on the slasher moved and lacerated his forearm. The beam was not secured at the time.

An employee was operating a motorized pallet jack and fell off fracturing her pelvis.

An employee was attempting to repair a machine and got his hand(s) caught in the machine. The right pinky finger was surgically amputated.

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.

On August 25, 2025, a machine operator was working on the heat-set end of a textile bleach/prep range machine. He was running leader cloth and it was bunching up. He climbed a catwalk so he could reach the cloth and flatten it out. His right hand was caught in a nip roll while adjusting the cloth. The employee's middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

An employee was making a fiber. He used his right hand to smooth the ends of polypropylene yarn and ensure they wrapped evenly onto a beam, spinning at 7 RPM. Some yarn got wrapped around his right middle finger and lacerated the finger and removed the nail, resulting in a distal amputation.

An employee was climbing down a ladder from the top of a machine 8 feet above the ground. He missed the second-to-last rung from the bottom and fell to the floor, suffering a broken right tibia and fibula.

On July 19, 2024, an employee was preparing to start the warp machine and was wrapping the yarned ends around the beam. Their right hand went behind the beam and between the press roll, bypassing the guard. When the machine started, it crushed their right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was using a utility knife to remove film from a roll of material for a coder machine when the knife became stuck. He pulled his arm back to free the knife. When the knife came free, it cut his left arm between the wrist and elbow.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.