Dart Container Corporation of Pennsylvania

An employee was clearing plastic from the former when the platens closed on their left hand and arm, resulting in crushing injuries.

An employee was reconnecting the sheets underneath the oven when the oven opened and burned his legs.

An employee was operating a forklift to travel between buildings. As the lift was moving down the ramp, they reached out to press the open button for the overhead door. While pulling their arm back into the lift, the lift started to move down the ramp, catching their arm between a bollard and the forklift frame resulting in a left radius and ulna fracture.

An employee was walking across the manufacturing floor toward the break room when they tripped and fell, breaking their hip.

An employee was checking samples of cups for quality in a building without air conditioning. The employee developed dizziness and cramps in the right leg and toe and was hospitalized, suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion.

An employee was going to the breakroom when they tripped over a chair and fell, resulting in a hip fracture.

An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.

An employee tripped over a box and fell to the floor, fracturing their right arm.

An employee tripped over a piece of angle iron and fell to the floor sustaining a broken hip.

An employee was preparing for a CT scan when she tripped over a loose strap and fell to the floor, fracturing her hip.

An employee was performing a maintenance task on a shape mold machine. The equipment had a clog preventing it from pumping material into the next stage. The employee's left hand was inside the hopper's butterfly valve when it unexpectedly turned. The employee's index and middle fingertips were partially amputated.

An employee was stacking used cardboard onto a pallet in the shipping and receiving area when he tripped over the scale by the loading dock door. The employee fell to the concrete floor and was hospitalized with a fractured left hip that required surgery.

On May 14, 2025, an employee was manually adjusting a plastic sheet entering the thermoforming oven when their right hand was pulled into the pin chain and idler wheel. The employee sustained the amputation of their middle finger.

At 6:30 p.m. on April 23, 2025, an employee was using a CNC panel saw when his fingers were pinned in by the pressure beam used to hold the board he was cutting. The sawblade, coming from beneath, amputated about 1/4 inch of his right little fingertip.

An employee was diagnosing an issue with a bagger that had jammed. The employee was cleaning out a piece of supporting equipment (a scrap barrel) when the blower motor contacted his right middle fingertip and fingernail, resulting in an amputation. The blower motor was not guarded at the time.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.