YKK (U.S.A), Inc.

An employee was pouring nitric acid into a plating bath tub. A mechanical trolley that traveled over the tank approached and startled him. This caused him to spill the acid onto his right arm. His arm was burned from the wrist to the elbow.

An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.

An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.

An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was operating an industrial tape cutter machine. He stopped the machine to clear a blockage. While he was clearing the blockage, the machine came down and amputated his left index fingertip. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.

An employee was setting up the dies on a metal forming machine. He was feeding some material through and jogging the machine when his left middle finder got caught in the point of operation and the fingertip was amputated. The machine was not guarded at the time.

An employee was replacing the trim die on a machine when the machine's stored energy caused the die to come down and contact their fingers. The employee sustained a laceration and fractured left ring and middle fingers.

An employee was pouring nitric acid into a plating bath tub. A mechanical trolley that traveled over the tank approached and startled him. This caused him to spill the acid onto his right arm. His arm was burned from the wrist to the elbow.

An employee was clearing a jam or feeding tape into a machine when it activated, resulting in a fingertip amputation on the left hand.

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.