Sauder Woodworking Co.

On August 12, 2025, an employee was scraping material off a stainless steel roller on the wrapper line when their left hand was pulled into the rollers. The employee sustained a finger amputation.

An employee was tagging a load when they tripped over the corner of an outfeed conveyor and fell to the floor, resulting in a femur fracture.

An employee was making an adjustment on a trim saw machine when their right hand contacted the machine, resulting in a partial amputation of their right middle finger with a fracture. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident after maintenance work was performed on the machine.

On February 24, 2021, an employee was hospitalized with a right ankle fracture after slipping and falling on ice in a parking lot while walking into work.

On October 21, 2019, at approximately 10:15 p.m., an employee was emptying a hopper into a hog. He used his hand to release the bottom lever when it snapped back and caught his left middle finger, causing a partial fingertip amputation.

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.

On August 12, 2025, an employee was scraping material off a stainless steel roller on the wrapper line when their left hand was pulled into the rollers. The employee sustained a finger amputation.

An employee backed a stand-up powered industrial truck (PIT) into the battery charging area. He dismounted the PIT and it moved forward, catching his ankle against the guardrail of the charging area. The employee's ankle was fractured and he was hospitalized.

An employee was in a powered industrial vehicle (PIV), pulling down racks. One of the racks tilted and its top portion struck his head. He suffered a head injury that required staples.

An employee was returning from lunch and went to disconnect a forklift battery from charging when he felt a shock and sustained burns to the back of his right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee loaded six TV stands onto a hand truck dolly, each one weighing approximately 38 kilograms. The employee pushed one side of the dolly while his co-worker pushed on the other side of the dolly. The employee lost his footing and fell. The dolly then fell on top of him and the handle pierced his right foot through the tongue of his shoe, resulting in a puncture wound.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.