Dart Container Corporation

On May 14, 2025, an employee was manually adjusting a plastic sheet entering the thermoforming oven when their right hand was pulled into the pin chain and idler wheel. The employee sustained the amputation of their middle finger.

On August 8, 2024, at approximately 7:25 AM, an employee was performing startup activities when their left hand was caught between two rollers on a chrome roller unit. The employee's left little, middle, and ring fingers were crushed, and they sustained two fingertip amputations to the little and ring fingers.

An employee was re-assembling an air cylinder and aligning an end cap to fit properly with the cylinder barrel. When the end cap aligned and snapped into place, the employee's fingers were caught in the nip point where the end cap connects with the cylinder barrel. The employee sustained amputations to their left middle and ring fingertips.

An employee was bending over to pick up a marker from the floor. A whiteboard fell from its base and struck the back of the employee's head, causing a head injury.

In the thermal forming department, a machine was shut down because the sheet was wrapped around the rolls. The sheet was cleared, and the leader sheet was in place to start the line. During the start-up process, the sheet broke away from the leader sheet. An employee was on the east side of the chrome-roll stand between the scanner and draw rolls. The employee was trying to save the sheet and manually hand feeding the sheet into the draw rolls when his hand was caught between the rolls and his arm was pulled in. He suffered injuries to his fingers, hand, and arm up to the bicep and internal bleeding.

An employee was hosing down and cleaning a concrete curb machine when the hose got caught and his hand was pulled into the auger of the machine, resulting in fractures and amputations of the right ring and little fingers.

An employee was using a machine to fill bags with birdseed. The employee was clearing a stuck bag under the machine when the bag cutter amputated the employee's fingertip.

A temporary employee was helping an operator remove jammed laminations from a press machine when their right ring finger got pinched between the laminations and the brake of the chute, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee had just serviced a radiator on a concrete machine. During the final check on the machine, the employee was adjusting a hose when a fan caught his right index finger. The finger was amputated at the second knuckle.

Two employees were using a water hose to unclog a heart and liver separator machine. The machine was turned on while one employee's hand was inside it, and an auger under it amputated the tip of his right index finger. He was hospitalized.

On July 22, 2025, an employee was cutting/torching a large piece of metal when a piece of the material broke loose, struck him mid-stomach, and knocked him to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with an umbilical hernia and fractures to his right femur and left fibula.

An employee was feeding material through a pinch roller. There was a line break and the employee was working to clear out the line. The closed roll grabbed his glove and pulled his entire arm through the machine. The employee sustained compartment syndrome and a broken fingertip requiring hospitalization.

An employee hooked up two bundles of steel tubing to be lifted with an overhead crane. He stumbled while walking and operating the crane and his right hand contacted the crane's pulley mechanism. The upward motion of the crane caused the cable to pull his finger into the pulley. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

An employee was taking equipment out of a trailer. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground 3-4 feet below, breaking his left hip.

The employee was operating a peeler machine when his left hand got caught against the log that was being peeled. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations to the fingers on his left hand that required stitches.

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.