Natoma Manufacturing, LLC

An employee was pushing carts into the chute area for customers to retrieve. The first of six carts struck the wall and caused the other carts to bounce back and strike the employee. The carts knocked the employee to the ground and she sustained a back injury.

An employee was loading a portable storage container onto a dovetail trailer. This requires hooking up a bridle to the container and lifting the container enough for the dovetail to begin to slide under it. The employee reached and held the bridle lock to allow the trailer to move under it when the trailer moved backward instead of forward and caught his finger. The employee's right middle finger was amputated between the fingernail and the first knuckle.

An employee was reaching over a small stack of steel billets on the ground to cut a strap. When the strap was cut, one of the billets (weighing 5,182 pounds) rolled down onto his right leg. He was pinned and suffered a broken tibia. The incident occurred while the employee was training.

On June 7, 2023, employees were unloading a box truck and rolling a reel of 2-inch plastic pipe to the back of the truck. As the employees were rolling the reel, the edge of the steel frame of the reel contacted the side of the truck. The injured employee s right little finger was caught between the reel and the truck, resulting in a laceration and fracture as well as a little finger amputation.

Employees were using a dolly to remove a trash compactor unit from a residential home. As they began to transport it out of the room and to the outside, the dolly encountered uneven ground. This caused the dolly and the unit to move quicker than expected. The injured employee's left hand was then caught between a nearby concrete column and the compactor unit, resulting in fractures of the left ring and middle fingers that required amputation.

On October 21, 2025, an employee was operating a saw when a pneumatic clamp caught their right middle finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the finger.

An employee completed an end cut on a metal shim and started transferring the metal shim from the saw conveyor to two saw horses in the area. The employee set one end of the shim (7 feet long x 8 inches wide, weighing 218 pounds) on one of the saw horses, then slid the other end onto the other saw horse and the shim fell from the first saw horse. The employee's left index fingertip was pinched between the saw horse and the shim, resulting in a skin avulsion. The fingertip was amputated later.

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

An employee was moving steel beams with an overhead crane when the bundle struck a bollard and became unstable. As the employee reached to stop the material from shifting, his thumb was pinched in-between the beams, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was rigging a steel joist to be lifted by a crane. The joist fell and pinned the employee against the concrete ground. The employee sustained fractures to multiple ribs, his right arm, right tibia, and an open fracture to his right ankle, as well as a dislocated right hip.

An employee was working to remove a product blockage from a piece of equipment. The employee was struck by a metal bar near the deck of the pin mixer equipment and sustained blunt force trauma to the torso.

An employee was moving a rack onto a lower conveyor in the south heat treat area when their finger got caught between the part tray and the rollers, resulting in a fingertip fracture and amputation.

An employee was climbing a ladder to get on top of the breakroom. The ladder slipped, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to his upper back, left foot, and ankle.

Two employees were removing a circuit breaker. The injured employee was using wrenches in the removal process. One of the wrenches contacted an adjacent door, resulting in an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to their neck, face, and ear, as well as momentary vision loss due to the flash.

An employee bent over to pick up a rubber mat from the ground. When he grabbed the corner of the mat, a rattlesnake hidden under it bit his left middle finger near the first knuckle. He was hospitalized.