NCI Group, Inc.

An employee was moving bar stock. The employee's left index finger was caught and crushed between a conveyor roller and a piece of the stock. The finger was medically amputated.

An employee was moving bar stock on the conveyor for a vertical bandsaw. The conveyor actuated, and his left index finger was crushed between a conveyor roller and the piece of bar stock he was working with. The fingertip was medically amputated.

An employee had just lowered a spreader bar using a crane. When he removed the hook and raised the crane, it clipped the spreader bar and caused it to tilt over, landing on his left foot. The employee was hospitalized with a left foot fracture.

An employee was making adjustments to a limit switch located inside the slide gate electrical box. The motor actuated and his hand was caught between the chain and the sprocket. The employee sustained a laceration to the right hand that required stitches and hospitalization.

An employee was operating an overhead crane to move a coil to a staging rack. After setting the coil down next to another coil, the employee did not move the chain, which was caught between the two coils. When the employee went to move the crane with the lodged chain, the coil became unstable and began to fall. The employee stepped out onto the staging rack to stabilize the coil with his hands. The coil was too heavy and fell onto the rack and the employee's right and left legs. As a result, the employee suffered amputation of the left leg and a fracture to the right leg.

An employee completed a shift during which she moved patient beds and stretchers. While at home, the employee experienced back pain and went to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with spinal fractures.

An employee was lifting and carrying a heavy box. After putting the box down, the employee had back pain and weakness in their left leg. They were hospitalized, having suffered a back sprain.

An employee sustained a lower back strain while assisting a client who was about to fall.

An employee was turning over a patient and felt a pull in her abdomen. The employee sustained a hernia.

An employee was working on the wharf recouping lumber boards (2x4s and 2x6s that can vary from 8' to 16' in length) from bundles that had become misplaced when they sustained a right rotator cuff tear requiring hospitalization.

An employee was cutting steel channels from a hanging rack that was being supported by a forklift. When they were finished, the forklift started moving the rack out of the area and a piece of material snagged one of the rack legs, causing the rack to tilt backward. The rack slipped off the forklift and struck the employee on his right side/lower back. He sustained a fractured pelvis and was hospitalized.

An employee was working to remove waste wire between two boat rack/spreader bars (10 feet in length, 8 inches wide, and 16 inches tall, with a center lifting point for a crane hook) in the hanging department. One boat rack was leaning on another boat rack. The employee reached between the boat racks to move the leaning boat rack and remove the waste wire. The leaning boat rack shifted and the employee's left index finger was pinched between the two racks (weighing approximately 600 pounds each). The employee sustained an abrasive amputation of the left index fingertip from the nailbed up.

An employee was performing maintenance on a coating machine and the belt cover guard was removed to repair the belt. The moving belt caught the employee's fingers and pulled them between the belts, injuring three fingers on the employee's left hand. The fingernails were removed from their little and middle fingers. The ring finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee tripped, fell to the floor, and suffered a broken right radius. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was stacking steel grating. The grating moved and their right ring finger got caught between grating. The last digit of the ring finger was amputated.

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.