Medline Industries Inc.

An employee was working on a conveyor belt when their left hand became stuck in a roller of the conveyor belt. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the middle finger.

On November 9, 2024, an employee was lubricating a drive chain while it was moving, and his left thumb was caught by the chain. The employee was hospitalized with an injured thumb, which required surgery. The machine was not guarded at the time.

An employee was preparing to unload a truck at a loading dock. There was an exposed wire hanging from the ceiling of the loading dock, and when the employee opened the dock door, the door contacted the wire, causing the employee to suffer an electrical shock.

An employee attempted to pull down a delivery truck's roller door. The employee adjusted his foot position on the rear platform of the truck when he fell and landed on the parking lot, resulting in a fractured hip.

An employee was traveling down an aisle on a powered pallet jack and a co-worker (injured employee) was traveling closely behind on a reach truck. The employee on the pallet jack turned into an aisle and stopped. The co-worker on the reach truck also turned into the same aisle and struck the forks of the pallet jack, crushing their left foot and resulting in a fractured toe and an amputated toe.

An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.

An employee was straining hot water from a pot of rice when the water splashed onto them, resulting in burns to their chest, arms, shoulder, and back.

An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.

An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.

An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.

An employee was clearing a material jam on a line, at a point where it formed the cores of diapers. When he removed the material, his left little finger was caught between the belts of a forming drum. His hand was lacerated and the finger was broken. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.

An employee slipped on a recently mopped concrete floor and fell. The employee sustained a hip fracture.

On April 9, 2025, an employee was cleaning anilox rollers in a machine with a rag. The machine caught the rag and then the employee's left hand, resulting in amputation of the middle finger.

An employee was jogging two rollers to clear a paper jam when his left hand was pulled into the rollers, resulting in amputations of the index, middle, and ring fingers down to the knuckle.

On July 27, 2024, at 2:45 AM, an employee was walking down an aisle in the converting department when he tripped and fell on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.