Kohler

An employee was operating a stand-up forklift as part of hands-on training and the forklift struck storage racks. Their left foot was fractured and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was cutting bands on a pallet when he tripped and fell, breaking his right hip.

Two employees used lock out/tag out (LOTO) procedures to change carrier chains. The chains became stuck. When one employee tried to release the chains, stored pneumatic energy was released catching the employee's right ring finger and crushing it to the first knuckle resulting in a partial 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 helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

An employee was rigging I-beams. An I-beam slid off the stack of I-beams and fractured the employee's leg.

An employee was operating a stand-up forklift as part of hands-on training and the forklift struck storage racks. Their left foot was fractured and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was standing near an A-frame as a forklift passed. The forklift struck quartz slabs that were on the A-frame causing them to fall over and crush the employee's arm between the slabs and the forklift.

On November 11, 2020, an employee was on a product transfer cart between two conveyors. The cart moved and crushed his foot against a conveyor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the foot.

An employee was dumping a dump hopper. The hopper came back down and struck the employee's left little finger, resulting in an amputation.

An employee was setting a cast iron tub. The tub fell on the floor, landing on the employee's right index finger. The tip of the finger was ripped off.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.