The Binding Edge, Inc.

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.

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.

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.

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 using an extended pallet jack to move rolls of paper on racks in the warehouse. He was standing on the first level of the racking system when his foot slipped and he fell 4 feet to the ground landing on his right side. He was hospitalized with fractures to his right collar bone and several ribs on the right side. The employee also struck his head on the ground, scraped his right knee, and his left middle and ring fingers were cut by a nylon band that he grabbed as he fell. The cuts required stitches.

An employee was working with a laminating machine to ensure that the rollers were an appropriate temperature when his right arm became caught on a sticky substance on the rollers and was forced into the machine. The employee sustained skin tears that exposed muscles and tendons.

An employee was wiping off a paper cutter blade when they suffered a fingertip amputation without bone loss.

An employee was operating a printing press when he felt ill and was transported to the hospital, where he had a heart attack.

A temporary employee was running a printing machine when it became jammed. The employee's left hand then became caught in the printing machine and two fingers were crushed. A portion of the left middle finger needed to be medically amputated.

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.