Lineage Logistics

Employees were conducting inventory in the rail room. A forklift operator had moved four pallets of boxes into a storage location (bulk stacking) and pulled away. The injured employee entered this location to perform cycle counting/inventory and the stack of pallets fell forward, landing on the employee's right leg and back. The employee was hospitalized for a compound fracture to his right leg that required surgery.

An employee was operating a forklift in the loading dock area. They put a loaded pallet of product into a pallet invertor, then backed out of the pallet, and exited the forklift. Another forklift then struck the employee's left leg and pinned it against the employee's forklift. The employee's leg was lacerated.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to move empty pallets around the facility when the vehicle struck an angle iron barricade in the warehouse. The employee sustained rib fractures.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when it struck a stationary pallet jack. The employee's right foot was caught between the two pallet jacks and fractured.

An employee was checking temperatures with his pallet jack parked behind him. A reach truck came around a corner and struck the parked pallet jack, which rolled onto the employee's legs and knocked him to the ground. He suffered an ankle dislocation and a hairline fracture.

An employee was selecting in a freezer and sustained frostbite to fingers on both hands. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was picking orders in a freezer warehouse. He developed frostbite in both middle fingers; the right middle finger was partially medically amputated. The incident occurred during a training activity.

An employee had been putting product away in a freezer kept at negative 10-degrees Fahrenheit. At the end of their shift the employee had pain and discoloration in their feet and toes. The employee was hospitalized with frostbite in both of their big toes.

An employee was working during a cold weather event to break ice from water troughs for calves. The employee suffered frostbite in his fingers, resulting in surgical amputations to six fingers.

An employee was repairing de-icing trucks and equipment and connecting diagnostic equipment to the machinery. The employee developed blisters on both hands and was hospitalized for frostbite.

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was restocking a refrigerated area of a warehouse when he slipped on condensation and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

An employee was operating a double pallet jack. While he was pushing a pallet back, the pallet jack moved and the handle crushed his finger against racking.

An employee was struck by a pallet that fell from an empty pallet storage bay. The employee sustained a dislocated shoulder.

An employee was offloading tools from a van and walking them over to the curb. He lost his footing and fell while carrying a jackhammer. The jackhammer fell and caught the employee's right little finger against the curb. The employee's finger was amputated.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.