The Fall River Group, Inc.

On September 27, 2021, a maintenance employee was adjusting a chain on a machine. The chain went back in place on the sprocket and the employee's finger was caught between the chain and sprocket. The employee sustained an amputation to his finger.

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 was walking in the parking lot when they slipped on ice near the gutter downspout and fell. The employee sustained a fracture to their right hip at the proximal end of the femur.

An employee was operating a hammer machine to forge a heated nickel alloy billet. A fragment of the material broke off and struck the employee in his abdomen. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery to have the piece of metal removed from his abdomen.

An employee was welding a steel casting (weighing approximately 650 lbs.) when the casting moved and fell on his right foot, resulting in a crushed right foot. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was lifting a component into a water blast machine when their right middle finger got caught between the lifting hook of the hoist and the component resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was trimming scrap metal when their hand was caught in the 15-ton hydraulic press. The employee's hand was crushed, resulting in a finger amputation and loss of skin between both thumbs and index fingers.

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.