The Sherwin-Williams Manufacturing Company

An employee was working with a depalletizer when he noticed it was jumping. He got in a cherry picker, and was testing the tension of the chain, when the chain caught his glove and pulled in his left hand. He suffered a partial amputation to the left index finger.

An employee was walking back to her workstation. A forklift reversed a short distance, then completed a U-turn and struck her, running over her lower extremities. She was hospitalized with a broken ankle.

An employee was training on a jockey truck. Upon stepping out of the truck, the employee was struck by a rubber tire gantry crane, resulting in amputations of the right leg above the knee and left leg below the knee.

An employee was standing at the rear of a double pallet jack. Another double jack approached, and the employee's lower leg was caught between the two pieces of equipment. He suffered a broken tibia and fibula.

An employee was unloading large material bags on a loading dock. A forklift tine pinned the employee's foot against a pallet, causing the employee to fall and suffer a broken ankle.

An employee was pushing a container when they were struck by a forklift. The employee sustained a left leg fracture.

An employee was operating a shear to cut metal parts when two of their fingers contacted the blade. This resulted in amputation of the left middle and index fingertips.

On October 5, 2025, an employee was pulling a pressure washer hose when it it disconnected from the cooker. The employee was struck by jets of high-pressure water, resulting in lacerations to their left thigh requiring surgery. The employee was hospitalized.

A maintenance employee was climbing a fixed roof access ladder to perform work on an HVAC unit when they fell from the ladder, over the second-floor railing, and onto the stairs below. The total distance of the fall was over 20 feet. The employee suffered multiple fractures that required hospitalization.

At about 8:00 p.m. on September 8, 2025, an employee was cleaning an extruder. While he was brushing built-up powder, his hand brushed the extruder screws. The screws caught his right index finger and amputated about a quarter inch of it.

At about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2025, a warehouse technician working for Tnemec Company, Inc., began sweating profusely a half-hour into their shift. The employee was using a forklift to move staged pallets of paint to a shrink-wrapper, shrink-wrap the pallets, and then load the pallets onto a truck using a forklift. The employee became ill about two hours later and was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.