The Knapheide Manufacturing Company

On January 16, 2024, at 11:18 p.m., an employee was positioning a truck bumper that was on the floor, to be raised with a chain hoist, when the bumper shifted and pinched the employee's left middle fingertip against the floor, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

On September 7, 2023, an employee was stepping down an 18-inch step when he lost balance and fell backward to the concrete floor. His head struck the floor and he sustained a skull fracture and concussion.

On November 30, 2022, an employee was grabbing the extension for a floor hoist when their thumb was caught between the top of the floor hoist and the bottom of the truck body. They sustained a distal left thumb amputation.

On June 1, 2022, an employee was testing the voltage of a transformer when two fuses blew apart resulting in burns to the employee's hands and forearms.

At about 8:10 p.m., an employee was using a hydraulic press brake to form a steel part. As the steel part was re-struck, the material bent up into the front of the dies while the employee was holding it. The employee's left thumb was pinched between the die and steel part at the middle of the thumbnail, causing the amputation of the thumb tip.

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.

An employee was talking to a child on the playground, when the child grabbed her hand to lead her away. The employee stepped, lost her balance, and fell over. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture of her lower left leg and required surgery.

An employee was lowering a safe stack beam inside a trailer. The beam released, causing the employee to fall back and strike his head on the trailer floor. He was hospitalized with a brain bleed and a concussion.

An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

An employee was walking on a dock plate to open the door for the next trailer. He tripped on a cargo strap that was laying on the dock and fell. The employee sustained a fractured right hip, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

On September 18, 2025, an employee was rolling a stack of two steel racks containing automobile bumpers when the top rack dropped, pinching their right little finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation.

An employee spent about 4 1/2 hours working outdoors, servicing a boom lift on a truck. He was hospitalized with heat stress.

An employee was exiting an ambulance when his foot slipped, causing him to hit either the portable aluminum step or the concrete floor. He suffered a broken left elbow.

Two employees were sliding a 200-pound steel mounting plate off a worktable onto the forks of a forklift. They slid the plate until it was half on the table and half on the forklift, and were making an adjustment to get the plate fully on the forklift when the plate pinched one employee's left ring finger. He suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

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.