Weyerhaeuser Company

An employee was sanding a metal shaft on a lathe when his right thumb when under the sandpaper, resulting in the amputation of the distal portion of the thumb.

An employee was operating a press and attempting to lower a press platform down when they experienced heat exhaustion.

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a trimmer and when he went to lower the saw box platform, the pin holding the platform became stuck. The employee hammered at the pin, and when the pin dislodged, the platform swung down and hit the employee. The employee suffered a smashed upper arm with swelling and numbness.

An employee was clearing a jam on a panel stacker when several oriented strand board (OSB) panels fell onto her hands causing a laceration and fracture to the left hand and a laceration to the right ring finger.

An employee smashed a finger between bearing housing of rolls and a sander framework.

An employee was running during a fitness test and experienced heat illness, chest pains, and felt faint. The employee sustained heat exhaustion.

At about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2025, a warehouse technician working for Tnemec Company, Inc., began sweating profusely a half-hour into their shift. The employee was using a forklift to move staged pallets of paint to a shrink-wrapper, shrink-wrap the pallets, and then load the pallets onto a truck using a forklift. The employee became ill about two hours later and was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

An employee was performing job duties and became overheated. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

On July 29, 2025, an employee working near a metal furnace. Toward the end of his shift, he was charging a furnace and began to experienced heat exhaustion. He had also been in areas of elevated temperatures due to heat sources such as direct sunlight and a combustion engine. The employee was hospitalized with dehydration.

An employee was working near molten metal and experienced heat illness symptoms including cramps. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was working to dislodge a piece of stray veneer from a conveyor. The employee set up a ladder against the machine and climbed the ladder. He placed his left hand on the rail of the conveyor and his fingers were caught in the chain and sprocket assembly that powers the conveyor. Three fingers were amputated. The machine was guarded at the time.

A maintenance employee was changing a shaft on a piece of equipment that had been isolated for repair. While positioning the shaft into place, the shaft fell approximately two feet and pinched the employee's left index finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the fingertip without bone loss.

An employee was using a cart to move saw blades. The cart tipped over, striking and pinning the employee under the blades. The employee sustained severe lacerations to their torso and legs that required surgery.

An employee was labeling and writing on the back of a slab of quartz. The material was leaned toward him when the A-frame it was resting on shifted, causing the material to fall onto his right leg and break it.

An employee was clearing a jam in the strapping machine when the machine caused a partial amputation of his left index finger.

An employee was operating an ironworker (steel punching/shearing) machine. A piece of the tooling broke off and struck the employee's neck; a fragment was lodged in his neck. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

On October 25, 2025, an employee was stringing up a new reel of tire tread on a machine. The employee pulled a 6-inch tail and proceeded to spool up the liner. As the machine was jogged to begin the liner wrapping process, the liner caught the employee's glove and pulled their right arm into the liner, causing a fracture to the arm.

An employee was doing a cable change on top of an electric overhead traveling (EOT) crane. They were positioned between the cable drum and the drive shaft. While rotating the cable drum, the employee reached for the new cable that was to be installed. The grease fitting on the drive shaft caught their fall harness and pulled them underneath the drive shaft. The employee was pinned between the drive shaft and two pieces of angle steel, resulting in a fracture to their left hip.

An employee was helping two other employees to push a pallet of tile on a loading dock. He suffered a broken fibula and was hospitalized.

On October 5, 2025, an employee was pulling a pressure washer hose when it it disconnected from the cooker. The employee was struck by jets of high-pressure water, resulting in lacerations to their left thigh requiring surgery. The employee was hospitalized.