Coregistics

An employee was using a push cart. When he tilted the cart, his finger was caught between it and its handle. The fingertip was amputated.

An employee was unjamming paper in a crinkle paper machine when a blade in the machine amputated his thumb.

On October 26, 2023, an employee was riding on the forks of a forklift that was moving a stack of glass panels. The forklift made a turn and the glass fell on the injured employee, causing lacerations and crush injuries to their hands.

An employee was on a tractor and moving a stack of lumber when a board shot out from the stack and struck the employee's right leg. Their tibia was fractured and required surgery.

An employee was using a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) equipped with specialized horizontal clamps to move multiple heavy paper rolls. The top roll came loose from the clamps, falling towards the cab of the lift and lacerating the employee's middle and ring fingers.

An employee was helping a forklift operator move a steel joist. The joist struck a forklift tire, and as the forklift started to move, the joist shifted and struck the employee's right leg, resulting in a fracture.

An employee was using a pallet jack to move product from a truck to a customer location. A box on the top of the pallet shifted while the pallet was going over the bump of a dock plate and fell on the employee s head. Afterward, the employee experienced numbness in their limbs.

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.

An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.

A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.

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.