Sherwin Williams

A maintenance technician was troubleshooting the pail lid crimper on the production line in the filling department. The sensor activated and the crimper came down on the technician's hand, causing a fracture and laceration to his left middle fingertip.

An employee was operating a paint extruder machine when It began to gum up. Half an inch of his left thumb was amputated in an opening on the machine.

An employee had stepped off a forklift to scan product when pallets behind him fell and struck him, causing a right hip dislocation.

An employee was training on a forklift when it struck a column. The employee's left foot was broken.

On April 24, 2017, an employee fell from a rolling staircase ladder while repairing the mast on a hi-lift. The employee was hospitalized for a skull fracture.

An employee was pulling on a bale of corrugated cardboard boxes that were on a conveyor. The straps on the bale failed and the employee fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a fractured femur and/or hip.

On December 27, 2023, an employee was delivering mail to an apartment complex when their knee gave out and they fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a left tibia fracture.

An employee was walking to the inventory cage when her ankle gave out and she fell to the floor. The employee sustained a femur fracture and was hospitalized.

An employee was dislodging a pallet that was stuck when boxes of product fell onto them, causing them to fall to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured femur.

An employee was exiting an elevator when he lost balance and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

An employee was removing an access panel to a machine when their left index finger was caught between the panel and the machine surface flange. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

An employee was departing an airport gate area after walking out of a plane when they tripped on the seam of an unlevel carpet. The employee fell forward to the floor and sustained a fractured right shoulder/arm, right knee pain, a hip injury, and facial lacerations.

A forklift ran over an employee's foot resulting in a crushing injury.

An employee finished cleaning the feeder from the extruder line and was descending a step ladder. The ladder moved unexpectedly, causing the employee to lose balance and fall. The employee's left ring finger contacted a slowly rotating agitator resulting in a broken bone and lacerated tendon.

An employee was bringing a piece of equipment into a warehouse on a pallet jack. As he entered the warehouse, the pallet jack hit a hump in the floor and tipped over, breaking vertebrae in the employee's back.

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.