IPMF LLC

An employee had been loading frozen blocks of salmon chum into a meat grinder. A block jammed in the top infeed of the grinder. The employee turned off the machine and went to unjam the grinder. The auger was still rotating and amputated the employee's left little and ring fingers.

A temporary employee was lifting a steel crane arm off the floor. The crane arm fell onto the employee's fingers. Two fingers on the left hand were partially amputated.

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

An employee was moving three stacked bins with a pallet jack in the centering room. While turning, the bins struck a wall-mounted control panel, causing an unopened kettle behind the employee to open. Heated bone broth was released. The employee went to close the kettle and came in contact with the hot broth (approximately 200 degrees) resulting in second-degree burns to their legs.

An employee was emptying a strainer into a floor drain in front of a kettle in preparation for broth to be pumped from the kettle. The kettle was tilted and hot broth poured onto the employee, whose neck, back, and foot were scalded.

On January 26, 2025, at 1:30 p.m., an employee was replacing a temperature probe in a sterilizer and was burned by residual hot water and steam within the line. The employee was hospitalized for first- and second-degree burns to the face, neck, and arm.

An employee was working on a condenser in the power plant. He was pulling on the belts when a belt amputated their left ring fingertip.

An employee was using an onion peeler. As they went to remove stuck onion peels, the onion peeler caught their glove and pulled their hand in. The employee was hospitalized and required skin graft surgery.

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.