Cincinnati Incorporated

A piece of sheet steel fell from a sawhorse onto an employee's right leg and foot, resulting in fractures.

An employee was remotely operating a 25-ton gantry crane with a magnet attachment to unload a steel plate (approximately 96'' x 280'') from a semi-truck to the ground in the steel yard. The plate struck the employee as it was being moved, resulting in three fractures to his right arm that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was prepping the pallet gate door for removal. While pulling the center drive piston from the door, the employee sustained an inguinal hernia.

An employee was replacing springs in a counter balance unit on a shear machine when something shifted in the machine and his left hand was caught in the machine, resulting in amputation of the left ring fingertip.

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee was standing on some large wooden storage crates, adjusting a tarp to cover them. He fell from the crates to the parking lot ground, landed on his left side, and suffered several broken ribs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was remotely operating a 25-ton gantry crane with a magnet attachment to unload a steel plate (approximately 96'' x 280'') from a semi-truck to the ground in the steel yard. The plate struck the employee as it was being moved, resulting in three fractures to his right arm that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was polishing a guide pin using a CNC lathe when his left glove got caught on the chuck or tool and three of his fingers were pulled in. The employee was hospitalized and underwent reattachment surgery for finger amputations.

On May 2, 2025, two employees were lifting a pallet jack with a built-in weight measuring plate into the bed of a truck when the plate shifted as they were lifting it. The plate crushed and severed the injured employee's middle and ring fingertips. A fingertip was amputated.

An employee was cleaning a camera lens on a wheel dresser, a machine used to correct the shapes of grinding wheels. The employee's right index finger was caught between the wheel dresser and the grinding wheel being serviced. The fingertip was amputated at the first joint.

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.