Uni-Cast, LLC

An employee was working at an oven in a foundry. When he closed the oven, its door closed on his left index finger. The finger was amputated.

An employee was cutting small aluminum parts on a vertical bandsaw when their finger contacted the saw blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger on their left hand.

An employee was using a 2,500-psi pressure washer. Water from the washer severely lacerated the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was installing wood trim surrounding a skylight inside a home. While holding a piece of trim in it's desired location, his pneumatic nail gun discharged, sending a 3/4-inch pin nail into his left forearm.

An employee removed a safety valve on a trailer that unknowingly contained nitrogen gas. The gas released from the trailer and pushed the employee backward off a scaffold approximately 10 feet before they struck a garage door, resulting in a pelvic injury.

An employee was sitting at her workstation when a nail gun malfunctioned and shot a nail into her left leg. She suffered a puncture and blood vessel injury and was hospitalized.

On November 25, 2023, an employee was using a high-pressured water hose to perform sewer line cleaning operations. The employee's right little finger and palm were lacerated by pressurized water from the hose.

An employee was hydroblasting when they slipped and the pressurized water stream lacerated their left ankle.

An employee was conducting preventative maintenance on an extrusion press and using an impact wrench to remove rivets on the shear cylinder. When the last rivet was removed, the stored energy in the cylinder released and dropped it onto the employee's hand. Their right thumb was caught between the cylinder and the casing of the rivet gun, resulting in crushing injuries. The employee sustained an amputation of the thumb without bone loss. The machine was locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was operating a gasoline-powered pump to remove water from the ground floor sump of a storage building. The pump became blocked and overheated. The employee was removing the blockage when he was sprayed with hot mud and steam, resulting in first- and second-degree burns to his right hand and left wrist, as well as a third-degree burn to the underside of the left wrist.

An employee was working at an oven in a foundry. When he closed the oven, its door closed on his left index finger. The finger was amputated.

An employee was pinned between port blocks and a forklift, resulting in fractures to the right tibia and fibula.

An employee stepped on the lip of a deck plate and his foot slipped into a pot of ore, resulting in burns to the lower left ankle and foot. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee slipped while climbing a ladder on a skidder, fell to the ground, and suffered a tibia/fibula fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was lowering the bucket of a track loader that contained a grade stake and the grade stake punctured his foot, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.

An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.

An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.