Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Millwood, Inc., 8018 Quarry Road, ALBURTIS, PENNSYLVANIA 18011
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was standing near a stack of wooden pallets in the warehouse when a forklift bumped into the stack, causing the pallets to topple over onto the employee. The employee sustained a fractured leg.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
On March 4, 2025, an employee was reaching for a piece of debris on the new repair line paint area, when his shirt strings became caught in a roller. His right little finger was caught in the chain of a conveyor and partially amputated.
An employee was clearing a jam in a pallet nailing machine when their middle finger was caught between a runner and the metal stop of the machine. The employee sustained a finger amputation.
An employee was cleaning up after servicing a machine between the machine's infeed rollers and a guard rail. A forklift was placing a load of pallets on the infeed rollers when the bottom pallet caught the lip of the line, causing the rest of the wooden pallets to fall off the forklift's forks. The pallets pinned the injured employee against the equipment and broke his pelvis.
An employee was loading a wood board into a feeder. The employee's finger was caught between the material and a stop plate, and the employee suffered an amputation to the finger.
Two employees were walking through the warehouse behind a forklift that was moving pallets of 30-foot metal bottom bars. When the forklift reversed, the top of the forklift struck a box of metal bottom bars on top of racking, causing the box to fall and strike the two employees. They were both taken to the hospital; one employee was treated and released without being admitted. The other employee was hospitalized with a fractured left orbital bone and an injured right knee.
The injured employee was spray painting lay flat shipping reels while another employee was picking up the reels with a telehandler after they were painted. The telehandler bumped a reel, causing other reels to fall. The injured employee was caught between the reels, resulting in broken left femur.
An employee was installing an aerial drop cable across a roadway. The employee was on a ladder positioned against a telephone pole. Cable had been installed on one side of the roadway. The employee was making the connection to the pole on the opposite side of the roadway when a box truck contacted the cable, causing the employee to fall onto the grass of the customer's yard. The employee sustained broken ribs and was hospitalized.
An employee was performing routine housekeeping duties when a bale of plastic bottles slid off the forks of a forklift that was backing out of a trailer. The bale struck the employee, pushing her into another machine. The employee suffered a fractured rib and punctured lung.
An employee was using a 4-by-4 to straighten a pack of wood. A forklift nudged the 4-by-4, which caused the employee's right hand to be caught between it and the pack of wood. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right ring finger.
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An employee was walking behind the rewind coding machine while on his phone. He rested his left wrist on top of the slitter bar and his finger came in contact with the roller, resulting in amputation.
The injured employee was assisting the bander operator with dressing units with dunnage. A unit became stuck on the conveyor. The injured employee was pushing the unit on the conveyor when a conveyor roller pulled his shoe in-between the rollers. The employee sustained crushing injuries to their left foot/toes.
An employee was inspecting and adjusting a tray in a thermoforming machine when the the trigger switch was touched, causing the machine door to close on their right hand. The employee sustained crushing injuries to the hand.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.