Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at KI, Inc., 1330 Bellevue Street, GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN 54302
on — Asphyxiations, strangulations, suffocations, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
On October 15, 2021, an employee was repairing a leaking steam hose and was trapped between a moving parts hoist and a drip pan in the plating department. The employee was hospitalized, having suffered a lack of oxygen.
On June 21, 2021, an employee was operating a chair leg bending machine. The employee's fingers were caught between the die set and the leg of the chair to be bent; three of the employee's fingers were amputated. The machine was guarded at the time.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
On March 19, 2025, at 1:35 p.m., two employees were loading a tractor trailer that was backed into a dock and connected to the dock lift. The driver began to drive away while the employees were still on the dock lift, which then collapsed. The injured employee fell to the ground, resulting in a right hip contusion that required hospitalization.
An employee was emptying scrap from a hopper into a metal dumpster. The employee released the hopper latch and his left index finger was caught between the fork and the hopper frame. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.
An employee was loading a truck with product, reached to open the shipping door but grabbed a loading bar instead, causing him to fall out of the door. The employee fell approximately 4 feet to the ground and sustained a fracture to the lower right leg.
The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.
An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.
A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.
An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.
An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.