Hershey Chocolate & Confectionery Corporation

On 09/24/2021, at approximately 4:30 PM, three employees were cleaning a toffee cooker. The toffee cooker consists of an upper plate and a lower plate that are raised and lowered to separate the cooker. The toffee cooker was locked out/tagged out. Once the toffee cooker was cleaned, the gasket was installed and it was ready to be closed up. Lockout/tagout was removed. The injured employee reached to adjust the seal as the lower piece come up into place and their right little finger got caught between the lower plate and the alignment pin, resulting in an amputation below the first knuckle. The machine was not guarded at the time.

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

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 had been cleaning red garbage bins (gondolas) near the dock area. The employee tripped and fell off the dock. The employee sustained fractures to an elbow and two ribs, and had bleeding in their lungs.

On June 2, 2025, at approximately 8:45 PM, an employee was taking apart the trayoff belt on a conveyor. While working to remove the roller, the employee's left ring finger was crushed between the roller and the frame of the equipment. The employee sustained a partial fingertip amputation.

An employee tripped and fell over a conduit at a chocolate line and was hospitalized with fractures to both wrists and elbows.

An employee was unjamming a hand feed machine in the wrap room. Paper caught the employee's left hand and dragged it into a crimper machine. The employee suffered amputations of the index and middle fingers.

An employee was checking for a blockage in a pneumatic ball valve when the valve closed on his right finger, resulting in an amputation.

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.