Portillo's Hot Dogs, LLC

An employee was dispensing a cleaning chemical from a storage cage. The chemical splashed onto the employee's lower leg and burned it.

An employee was walking through the gravy cooler when he slipped. His left hand went into one of the pots containing hot gravy. The employee was hospitalized with second degree burns to the left forearm and blisters.

An employee was walking in a food preparation area when they tripped over a bread rack and fell, resulting in a broken arm.

While washing the inside of the walk-in cooler, an employee slipped on ice and fell to the floor. He was hospitalized with a back injury and a cut on an eyebrow.

On December 27, 2019, at 10:36 AM, an employee threw hot water or gravy onto the injured employee's back, causing second degree burns that required hospitalization.

An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.

An employee was performing maintenance under a kettle. When he removed a tri-clamp on a transfer line, the hot fat and broth material in the kettle poured out onto his arm. The employee was hospitalized with burns.

After completing a run with an oil distributor truck, an employee was working to return (suction) the hot oil to the tank of the truck. When the employee opened one of the valves, hot oil (approximately 385 degrees) sprayed their face, resulting in first-, second-, and third-degree burns.

An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was using a water hose to clean debris out of the outfeed of a log conditioning vat. Water began entering the vat from the adjoining vat through a void in the separation wall at the infeed of the vats. As the employee was exiting the vat he had been working in using the access opening at the outfeed, hot water exiting the access opening entered the top of his protective hip wader. It pooled at the bottom of the wader and burned his left foot and ankle.

An employee's hand was on a door frame when the door slammed shut. Her left little finger was amputated at the first joint.

An employee slipped on the floor while walking into the refrigerator and fell, resulting in a broken ankle.

An employee tripped on a curb and suffered a broken arm.

An employee was walking through the gravy cooler when he slipped. His left hand went into one of the pots containing hot gravy. The employee was hospitalized with second degree burns to the left forearm and blisters.

An employee was walking in a food preparation area when they tripped over a bread rack and fell, resulting in a broken arm.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.