Bekaert Corporation

An employee was removing a roll (tooling) from a machine when their left little finger was pinched between the roll and the machine, resulting in a partial amputation.

On August 1, 2025, at approximately 5:05 AM, an employee was applying a label to a spool of product on a crane when the employee s arm became caught between two points of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a degloving/avulsion injury to their right arm.

At about 7:50 a.m. on February 26, 2022, a dry draw operator was using a welder to cut a piece of wire rod. A pneumatic cutter, part of the welding machine, activated and amputated the employee's right index fingertip just below the nailbed.

An employee welded an ISC spool on a payoff to reconnect the wire. After completing this task, the employee went to the control panel and pressed the start button to begin running the machine. While the machine was running, the employee noticed a loop was in the loose wire on the payoff spool and attempted to twist the loop before the wire closed on the spool, which would have made an "eye" in the wire. This would have created a snarl and caused the machine to stop. The employee was attempting to get the loop twisted out when the wire closed down on the spool with his fingers in between. The fingers (index, middle and ring) of the right hand were pinched between the wire, resulting in a partial amputation of the index finger to the second joint, middle finger to the second joint, and ring finger to the first joint.

An employee suffered an electrical shock when he touched a metal cart that had become energized by an electric welder that was mounted on it. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was using a crane. The hook slipped and a fitting fell onto a finger on the employee's left hand causing a fracture and laceration.

An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.

An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.

An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.

An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.

An employee was changing a section of pipe on a sulfuric acid tank when the pipe broke and acid splashed onto the left side of the employee's body, resulting in chemical burns to their left shoulder, the back of his arm, and his leg.

On August 1, 2025, at approximately 5:05 AM, an employee was applying a label to a spool of product on a crane when the employee s arm became caught between two points of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a degloving/avulsion injury to their right arm.

An employee was making an adjustment to a machine when his finger got caught in the machine. He sustained a partial amputation to the fifth finger on his left hand.

An employee was working on a wire drawing machine when three fingers on their right hand were caught between the rolls with the wire intact. The employee sustained an amputation to the middle and ring fingers and was hospitalized.

An employee was working at a threader machine. A spindle caught her sweatshirt. She was pulled into the machine, which pulled off her hooded sweatshirt and pulled in her hair. She suffered a scalping and was hospitalized.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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.