Kalscheur Implement CO. Inc.

An employee was pushing a patient in a wheelchair up a ramp when she felt a sudden pain in her middle and lower back, resulting in hospitalization.

An employee sustained a hernia while manually pulling on a dock plate that was stuck against a trailer. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was pushing tables together to seat a party of 20 when he felt a sharp pain and experienced difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for a collapsed lung.

An employee was walking and pushing a basket with cardboard on it when she felt her left knee crack. The employee's left femur was broken.

On August 27, 2023, an employee was rolling a 55-gallon drum of diesel fuel off a pallet and injured his back. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a chiller's glycol system. Pressurized glycol sprayed onto the employee's face; the employee ingested some of the glycol and developed nausea.

An employee was inside a shelving unit used to store food when a forklift went to move the shelving unit. The employee was struck by the forklift forks, resulting in a left ankle fracture.

An employee was lowering a dock plate into place to unload a trailer when their finger was caught and pinched between the dock plate and the trailer. They sustained a left middle finger laceration.

An employee was using an overhead crane to manipulate a part on a wash line. The part fell off the hook, then cut the employee's arm as the employee tried to catch it.

An employee was moving an aerial lift while inside the aerial lift when the lift hit a pothole. The basket bounced, causing the employee the hit the basket and fracture his right leg.

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.