Bimbo Bakeries USA

An employee was working at the bread bagger machine when their left little finger became caught on a sprocket, resulting in amputation to the fingertip.

An employee was running a clean-in-place process on a bun divider machine. He was trying to pull some dough out of the machine when its blades caught his left middle finger. The finger was amputated at the second knuckle.

An employee was clearing a loaf of bread that was causing a pan jam. Their forearm was caught between a pan diverter switch and the conveyor resulting in a severe laceration.

An employee was troubleshooting equipment when their hand was caught in the chain and sprocket, resulting in a right middle fingertip amputation.

An employee's hands became caught in a dough mixer lid. The employee sustained multiple fractures to the right hand and a laceration to the left hand.

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 going into a trailer to mark product for shipment and the trailer pulled away from the dock. The employee fell out of the trailer, contacted the dock plate, and then fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a punctured lung, fractured ribs, and contusions.

An employee was riding a four-wheeler while moving cattle into another pen when they were thrown off the vehicle and landed on the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their upper arm, pelvis, and right leg.

An employee was moving a stand-up powered industrial truck from a warehouse to a service area. During a turn on a slight decline, the vehicle's steering chain broke and the vehicle spun. The employee fell off the vehicle and landed on his right knee, breaking his fibula.

Two employees were operating a paving machine at approximately 1 mile per hour. The paver made a sudden turn, that threw the injured employee off balance. He reached for the handhold next to him and missed, falling 6 inches off the platform to the ground. The adjustable handle for the wing on the paving machine went between his left-hand fingers with the full weight of his body. The employee suffered a closed fracture of the fourth metacarpal bone in his hand.

An employee got off a work platform to move empty pallets off the platform and onto the floor while a forklift driver was operating directly across from them and putting pallets up on an opposite platform. The forklift struck the employee as he was bringing down a pallet horizontally. The employee was pinned between the forklift and pallet, causing traumatic rhabdomyolysis to the employee's upper left thigh. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was applying a hoist hook to the I-bolt on a die plate when their right ring fingertip became pinched between the hook swivel and the bolt, resulting in an amputation/avulsion.

An employee was using a magnet in the waste bin while cleaning the metal. The employee walked the magnet to the other side of the line, then placed the magnet on a metal surface which caught their hands between the metal and the magnet, resulting in amputation of the middle fingertip.

An employee was operating a food packaging line that places a shrink sleeve band over the top of a plastic bottle. The rollers on the equipment jammed and the machine stopped. As the employee went to pull the shrink wrap down, the knife was triggered and contacted the employee's left thumb resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was packing bread into cabinets. As the employee was pushing two empty racks out of a cooler, they slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

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.