McLane Company Inc.

An employee had just finished unloading his truck. He pulled the dock plate up and reached to pull the door down. His foot went between the dock plate and the trailer, causing him to fall to the right and break his leg. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was driving a forklift toward the parking area when he struck another forklift, crushing his left foot.

The injured employee was selecting food product from a pick slot while standing between her cart and the pick slot. Another employee approached on his tow tractor; he went to turn his tow tractor around so the hitch could attach to his cart, which was next to the injured employee's cart. While the tow tractor was turning around, it struck the injured employee's cart. The injured employee was struck by the hitch of her cart and was pinned between her cart and the pick slot. The employee sustained a severe laceration to her left leg.

An employee was loading a truck using a pallet jack. While backing up, the employee's right foot was caught between a pole and the pallet jack. He sustained a crushing injury.

An employee was driving a stand-up forklift while following behind a co-worker who was also driving a stand-up forklift. The co-worker slowed down to stop when the employee ran into their forklift and their left leg contacted the forklift's fork, resulting in a laceration.

An employee was on a double-end rider in an aisle selecting product when his left leg was pinned between the rack and rider.

An employee was using a forklift to load a tractor trailer when the forklift skidded into a wall. The employee sustained an arm fracture.

An employee was training on an rolling container carrier on the dry, non-frozen storage side of the distribution center. She made a turn around the end cap and her right foot struck the rail protecting the endcap racking. The employee's foot was fractured.

An employee was a passenger in a utility vehicle that was driving up a hill on a wooded trail. As the vehicle made a right turn, three fingers on the employee's right hand were caught against a tree and fractured.

An employee was operating a forklift when his left leg was caught between the forklift and a bollard resulting in a broken leg.

An employee was operating a rider pallet jack when it struck a stand-up forklift. The forks struck both of the employee's ankles, resulting in hospitalization.

An employee was working to repair a machine with a broken metal stopper. She removed the stopper and used a roll of tape to temporarily secure it. While she was moving it back into place to fix the machine, the residual pressure of the plastic pallets forced the stopper down, resulting in her right thumb becoming stuck between two metal parts. The thumb was amputated.

An employee was changing the battery on his forklift. He removed the forklift's battery plate and exited the battery machine alignment track. The shift lead then went to retrieve a new battery. The employee entered the battery machine alignment track again to unplug the charging cable. The battery changing equipment proceeded forward and pinned the employee against the forklift. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured ribs.

An employee took a picture of the seal and license plate on a delivery truck after loading. The truck then reversed back to the dock and pinned the injured employee against the dock. The employee sustained an abdominal fracture.

An employee was using a hook tool to pull a pallet onto the lift gate of a tractor trailer. The hook detached from the underside of the pallet, causing the employee to fall backward off the lift gate. The employee landed on the concrete parking lot about 5 feet below, suffering fractures to the skull and two thoracic vertebrae.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.