Borgers Ohio, Inc.

On July 27, 2022, at 11:45 a.m., an employee was walking near a machine while returning to her work area when she fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a broken right femur.

On March 8, 2022, an employee was programming a new tool within a molding cell. The employee removed the air line and the tooling closed on the employee's arm. Their arm was caught by the cutter bar within the tooling, resulting in a laceration and fractures to their arm.

On January 15, 2021, an employee was pushing a bed plate (for a textile production line's needle loom) into place. The bed slid in quickly, and his finger was caught in a shear point between it and a mounting bracket. He suffered a partial amputation to the finger.

An employee removed the spark plugs and was rotating an engine to evacuate condensate from the cylinders. An unknown source ignited the condensate and natural gas. The employee sustained burns to the back of his hands and upper leg area.

An employee was operating a front-end loader when a hydraulic line broke, causing the front-end loader to catch on fire. The employee jumped from the cab to the ground and sustained fractures to the T-6 vertebra and a heel.

An employee was near a hybrid separator when it malfunctioned, resulting in a flash fire that burned the employee's upper body.

An employee was moving two totes of turpentine. Noticing that one of them was leaking, he stopped his forklift and began to look for the leak. The forklift caught fire, and the employee suffered severe burns. He was hospitalized.

An employee was checking the inspection door to clean out any build up in the discharge chute. As the employee was heating the peanuts in the cooker to extract oil, he noticed embers and smoke in the discharge chute. The employee used a fire extinguisher to put out the embers and continued his work. As the employee opened the machine door next to the portal on the discharge chute, oxygen entered the chute and caused the peanuts to combust. A fireball shot out of the door and burned the employee's face, chest, and arms.

An employee was moving a standup forklift backward toward the glue machine when the forklift contacted the cabinet. The machine then tipped backward, causing the bottom feet on the backside to collapse. The cabinet fell forward onto the forklift where the employee was standing. His right ankle was trapped between the cabinet and the forklift. He sustained a crushing injury to the ankle.

On May 6, 2025, an employee dismounted a forklift to place a box on a pallet. Another forklift reversed into the employee's parked forklift, causing it to move forward and run over their left foot. The employee was hospitalized with a crushed and fractured foot.

On May 5, 2025, an employee was using the office paper cutter to trim hook and loop fasteners when they sustained an amputation of their left thumb tip without bone loss.

On April 28, 2025, an employee was reinstalling a fire extinguisher on a railing that runs along the wall. The fire extinguisher fell and when the employee went to catch it, his left little finger was caught between the extinguisher and the railing, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was walking in the hallway when they contacted another employee that was going in the other direction. The injured employee fell against a wall and then to the ground, resulting in a fractured right hip.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.