International Paper Company

An employee was raking out ash from a recovery boiler when he began to experience heat exhaustion. He was hospitalized.

An employee was troubleshooting a plug on a starch silo chute. The employee was caught by the internals of the rotary valve resulting in amputations to the tips of their right first and second digits.

On February 11, 2025, an employee began to drive a clamp-type forklift away from a propane fueling station. The forklift was still connected to the fueling station and the connection line broke. This caused a flash fire, and the employee suffered second-degree burns to both arms and minor burns to his face.

On January 22, 2024, an employee was working at an inspection door on a feed screw auger. He was pushing debris into the auger when his left foot was caught in the auger, resulting in a fracture and the amputation of two toes.

An employee was removing a roll core from a chuck. The machine activated while the employee's right thumb was between the chuck and the roll core. The employee sustained an amputation to the right thumb tip.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

An employee was loading black liquor into a tanker truck using a swivel arm. The arm caught and pinched his right middle finger as it moved, resulting in a partial amputation to the first knuckle.

An employee was visually inspecting the drive line for a conveyor. There was an explosion in the conveyor, and the employee suffered second- and third-degree burns to both forearms.

An employee was driving forklift with a load when the forklift hit a guardrail and the employee fell to the ground, resulting in a broken elbow, broken shoulder, and lacerations.

An employee was putting a chain back on a sprocket. The gearbox and sprocket contained two drive chains connected to the lowerator (vertical conveyor) and counterweight assembly. The employee received an alarm indicating that one of the chains had gone slack. While the employee was putting the chain back on the drive sprocket with tongue and groove pliers, the weight of the chain and counterweight fell back in place on the sprocket, pulling the employee's left hand into a pinch point. The employee's ring fingertip was amputated up to the fingernail.

An employee was removing locks from a demineralization feedwater valve after service. One of the valves above the employee had a gasket failure that caused hot demineralized water to spray the employee. The employee sustained burns to their torso and left arm.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

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.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

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.