Mercury Marine

An employee was assembling the gearbox of a lower unit (of a boat motor). They used a handheld electric drill to power the lower unit's gears and inspect the assembly. A gear was out of tolerance, so the employee placed sandpaper in the gearbox to remove any burrs or other material. The employee activated the drill and their left middle finger contacted a nip point between the gears in the unit, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

On January 28, 2022, an employee was removing an extra bar of steel stock that was fed into a bar stock feeder. The bar of steel stock fell approximately 1 inch onto the employee's left ring finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was pushing an electrical pallet jack loaded with parts baskets. While going through a doorway, the parts baskets caught the door frame and fell back onto the employee, who suffered fractures to the skull, cervical vertebrae, and ribs, as well as an ankle injury.

An employee was helping a die cast operator eject a jammed part when the part released under pressure and struck the employee's hand, crushing the thumb.

On December 30, 2023, an employee was pulling a pallet into the back room when a forklift rounded the corner and ran over the employee's right foot. Three of the employee's toes were amputated.

An employee was unwrapping a pallet of empty buckets. The employee stepped backward and was struck by a powered industrial truck carrying a pallet of bucket lids, resulting in a left ankle fracture.

An employee was exiting a trailer for it to be loaded when their right ankle was pinned between a piece of angle iron that was anchored to the floor and a long pallet being pushed by a powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee sustained an ankle fracture and was hospitalized.

A tow truck operator was operating his bed controls on the drivers side when another vehicle crashed into him. The employee sustained fractures to the right femur, hip, and left foot, as well as abrasions to the right knee and a laceration to the right wrist.

On December 23, 2023, an employee was backing a piece of mail transport equipment (MTE). They stepped backward as a fork truck was passing by and the forks of the truck contacted the employee's right ankle, resulting in injury.

An employee was pushing automotive suspension material using a material rack. The material started to shift and caught the employee's right little finger, crushing it. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger. The finger was re-attached.

An employee was assembling the gearbox of a lower unit (of a boat motor). They used a handheld electric drill to power the lower unit's gears and inspect the assembly. A gear was out of tolerance, so the employee placed sandpaper in the gearbox to remove any burrs or other material. The employee activated the drill and their left middle finger contacted a nip point between the gears in the unit, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was reaching for a label and stepped onto a metal piece along rollers and slipped. His leg went down into a gap between the machines and contacted the metal in the gap between the rollers. The employee was hospitalized with the avulsion of skin on his left shin between the ankle and knee, as well as injuries to muscle and ligament.

On June 10, 2025, an employee was driving a forklift west when they were struck by another forklift driving south. The suffered a puncture wound on the right calf.

An employee had just moved a large coil of steel next to another coil on a rack using an overhead crane. They unhooked one side of the sling and held onto it with their right middle finger. As they were raising the crane back up, the sling hung up under the coil, building tension; once it released, it quickly jerked the other side of the sling through the coils along with the last joint of the employee's right middle finger. The finger was amputated to that joint.

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.