Seneca Foods Corp

On September 27, 2020, an employee's hand was caught in the rollers of a corn husker resulting in crushing injuries including fractures to the middle two fingers and hospitalization.

An employee was setting up a canning line to package sliced beets. While checking to see if any food was stuck from sanitation, the employee's index finger contacted the rotating metal vanes of the rotary valve resulting in amputation.

An employee was harvesting peas when his foot was caught between a combine frame and a hopper, fracturing his foot.

An employee was walking to a customer's door to deliver a package when they tripped on uneven pavement and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a hip fracture.

An employee was leaving work for the day when he tripped over mulch and fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

An employee was walking on the sidewalk toward the front entrance of the building to start her work shift. She tripped over uneven pavement and fell onto the concrete sidewalk. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip and a sprained left knee.

An employee was walking into work through a doorway when she tripped on the door sill and fell to the floor, fracturing her humerus.

An employee was leaving for lunch. The wheel of her knee scooter struck a divot in the floor which caused her to fall into a metal rack. The employee sustained a broken right shoulder.

An employee tripped over a bin and fell to the floor. She landed on her hip and braced herself with her arm, resulting in a fractured hip and wrist.

An employee was reaching for a piece of angle iron when it fell onto his hand, which was on a table to support him as he reached for the overhead rack. He suffered a broken finger and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was putting dough into a forming machine when their left little fingertip was amputated by the forming die.

An employee slipped and fell outside, landing on her hip on concrete. The hip was broken and she was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was working to open the liftgate on the back of a delivery truck. His left middle finger was pinched between the gate and its frame, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.