Kwik Trip, Inc.

An employee was reaching a shelf in the storage room when he lost his balance and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with four fractured ribs, two on each side.

On July 28, 2024, at approximately 11:17 a.m., an employee was cleaning cardboard from the cooler when she tripped over a broom and fell. She fell into a cart and landed on the floor. The employee sustained a broken right shoulder in two places and was hospitalized.

An employee was operating a powered pallet jack when he noticed plastic was wrapped around the wheel. The employee got off the pallet jack while a co-worker used their pallet jack forks to lift up the vehicle so the employee could remove the plastic. As the employee grabbed the plastic, the pallet jack shifted off the co-workers pallet jack and fell onto the employees' fingers. They sustained amputations to the right middle and ring fingertips.

An employee slipped in a parking lot and fell to the ground, suffering a head laceration and a concussion.

On October 26, 2022, an employee tripped over another employee while turning, fell, and landed on the tile floor. The employee suffered a broken right hip.

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 diagnosing the lack of flow of product to a powder bin. The employee removed the rotary star valve below the bin. While he was reinstalling the valve, his right middle finger was crushed between its shaft and its housing. The finger was partially amputated.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

An employee was using a 10-foot step ladder to install roller shades. The employee fell from the third rung from the top, landing on the ground and suffering back and head injuries. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing a ladder to access a home attic. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, suffering a broken right elbow.

An employee was cutting a cast iron pipe when the pipe fell onto his right hand, resulting in amputation of the thumb. The employee was hospitalized.

While on a scaffold, an employee was transporting heated sealant material in a bucket. The employee tripped and fell, causing the heated material to splash onto his gloved hands. The employee sustained second-degree burns to both hands and his right wrist.

Three employees were pulling tension cable (similar to rebar) through the walls of a condo using a motor system. Two employees were needed to hold the cable while the third employee drilled the mounting locations. When the third employee activated the drill, the cables twisted. They caught the right index finger of one of the other two employees, amputating his fingertip.

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.