Vitesco Technologies

On May 6, 2024, an employee was troubleshooting a piece of machinery and trying to find an air leak when his left ring finger made contact with a spinning fan blade. He sustained a partial amputation of the finger.

A temporary employee had just transferred trash and recyclables into a metal trash bin and tried to push the bin into the arms of a trash compactor. The employee pushed the start button and held it down to raise the bin and empty the trash into the compactor, but when the compactor was at its furthest point, he noticed that trash was dangling down. He had reached into the bin to pull out the trash when the bin slid the rest of the way down the compactor arms and caught his fingers against the compactor. The last joints of his middle and index fingers were amputated.

An employee was fixing ceiling tiles while working from a ladder when they fell to the floor and sustained a hip fracture.

An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.

An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.

An employee was coming down a portable ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a right forearm fracture.

An employee was changing out the sensor wire on a sensor cap press. The machine actuated after the sensor was replaced, resulting in the amputation of the employee's left little finger.

A temporary employee was working on a plastic extrusion machine. The employee's left index finger got caught between the rotary gears, resulting an amputation to the finger.

An employee in the warehouse area was operating a semi-automated machine and noticed that the machine was not operating properly. He went to use a paper towel to clean the main rollers and his left hand was caught by the rollers. Two fingers were crushed.

An employee was walking to collect trash from a box at a work cell parts stand. A leg of the stand caught the employee's foot, causing the employee to lose balance, fall to the floor, and suffer a broken left elbow.

An employee's leg became entangled in a printer power cord. As she stepped backward, she got hung up and fell. She landed on her right side and suffered a broken right hip.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.