Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Concussions
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bemis Converter Films, 2451 Badger Ave., OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN 54904
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
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Final narrative
An employee was changing the machine to another job and filling the tank with water. Her foot was caught on the machine as she turned the valve. She lost balance and fell backwards striking her head on the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a concussion.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
At 12:45 a.m. on September 21, 2025, an employee was working to clear an obstruction in a machine when his left hand came into contact with a turning screw inside the machine. His index and middle fingers were amputated.
Two employees were changing out a mandrel on a coater converting machine when the injured employee's right index fingertip was pulled by the mandrel, resulting in a partial amputation.
On August 18, 2023, at 10:15 p.m., an employee was chucking a core when their left little finger got caught between the chuck and the core, resulting in amputation.
On August 10, 2023, at approximately 6:45 PM, a maintenance employee was replacing a cover on an electric motor when the motor assembly dropped to the floor, crushing the employee's right little finger and amputating the fingertip.
An employee was performing maintenance on a sheeter. He had pried up a steel access plate and was lifting it when it slipped and fell on his left middle finger. The finger was pinched against the floor, and part of the fingernail and fingertip was amputated.
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.