OHIO VALLEY FLOORING

An employee was standing in front of a tractor trailer that had been brought into a customer dock area to unload product. The truck began rolling, pinning the employee against another truck in the dock area. The employee suffered head trauma, sternum damage, and broken ribs, and was hospitalized.

An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.

An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.

An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was unloading a stock truck when an 8-foot butcher block countertop fell onto their fingers, resulting in amputations to their left middle and ring fingertips.

An employee was tarping materials when they fell from the top of the materials to the ground, resulting in an injury to their neck and shoulder.

An employee was backing a front-end loader out a doorway. The loader passed over a dip in the floor from the floor drain, and the employee was jarred into its door. The employee suffered a spinal cord compression causing pain in their neck and back, along with numbness in the legs.

An employee was working at a framing machine. The employee's fingertip was caught and broken in a clamp.

An employee was removing boxes from a trailer. As the employee was leaving the trailer, boxes fell onto the employee's leg and broke it.

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.