Interstate Batteries

A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.

A patient kicked a police officer in the leg, rupturing their patellar tendon. The police officer required hospitalization and surgery.

A cashier was hit in the face by a customer. The employee sustained injuries to his head and face.

An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.

A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.

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.

A temporary employee was punched in the face by another temporary employee. He suffered a laceration to the eye.

An employee was backing up a powered industrial vehicle. Her left hand was caught between the vehicle and a rack, and the wrist was broken.

An employee was operating an extruder and performing a spool swap over from the right spindle to the left spindle. After rewiring the new spool, the employee's clothing got caught in the turning shaft when the left spindle started back up. The employee's left arm was pulled into the machine, resulting in a fractured humerus and lacerations to her triceps. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was resetting a warehouse racking system utilizing an order picker. They fell approximately 5 feet from the order picker to the concrete floor and sustained fractured ribs.

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.