Kronospan LLC

An employee was removing a clog from the dust extraction hose of a profiling saw when their fingers contacted the moving saw blade. The employee sustained lacerations to the left middle and index fingers.

An employee was dumping a self-tilting trash hopper into a compactor from a forklift. The employee reached up with his right hand to grab the mechanical lever to dump the hopper. The hopper dumped and then bounced back, striking the employee's left index finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was manually rotating a conveyor to help grease a bearing. His left hand got stuck between the belt and a sheave, resulting in a laceration to the middle finger and an amputation to the ring fingertip.

An employee was operating a table saw when its blade caught his left middle finger and partially amputated it.

An employee was greasing a bearing with a grease gun when grease punctured the skin on his left middle finger, requiring surgery.

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.

Two employees were investigating smoke originating from a screw at the base of a dry fuel silo. While they were in the ground-level hopper area, a dust explosion occurred. Both employees were burned. One suffered burns to both arms, the face, and the left side of the torso; the other was burned on the face and chest, as well as suffering circumferential burns to the arms.

At 8:00 a.m. on April 22, 2025, an employee was responding to a tracking fault on the bottom head of a six-head sander. While he was straightening the belt, his right hand was pulled in, wedged, and lacerated. He was hospitalized.

An employee slipped and fell while sanding a plenum. The employee landed on their leg and was hospitalized with a broken tibia.

On January 20, 2025, an employee was walking between buildings when they slipped on ice and fell. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their left tibia and fibula.

An employee was swapping motor leads to change the rotation on a river well pump motor when an arc flash occurred. The employee sustained second-degree burns to their hands and forearms.

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.