HVFG LLC

On 11/08/2024, an employee was working on piping a refrigeration condenser. Refrigeration condensers arrive from the factory with the internal piping pressurized and the end capped. The employee was cutting a capped refrigeration line when the cap blew off, striking the battery-operated saw he was using and knocking the saw it into his face. He was cut under the nose and struck on the head. The angle of the impact pushed metal fragments under his safety glasses and into his eyes. The employee sustained metal fragments in his eyes, lacerations to the face, and contusions to the head.

An employee was doing maintenance on a feed auger. The auger activated and amputated the employee's right index finger at the middle joint.

An employee fell while walking up an incline to the building in the parking lot, fracturing ribs and puncturing a lung.

An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.

An employee was performing maintenance under a kettle. When he removed a tri-clamp on a transfer line, the hot fat and broth material in the kettle poured out onto his arm. The employee was hospitalized with burns.

After completing a run with an oil distributor truck, an employee was working to return (suction) the hot oil to the tank of the truck. When the employee opened one of the valves, hot oil (approximately 385 degrees) sprayed their face, resulting in first-, second-, and third-degree burns.

An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was using a water hose to clean debris out of the outfeed of a log conditioning vat. Water began entering the vat from the adjoining vat through a void in the separation wall at the infeed of the vats. As the employee was exiting the vat he had been working in using the access opening at the outfeed, hot water exiting the access opening entered the top of his protective hip wader. It pooled at the bottom of the wader and burned his left foot and ankle.

An employee was moving three stacked bins with a pallet jack in the centering room. While turning, the bins struck a wall-mounted control panel, causing an unopened kettle behind the employee to open. Heated bone broth was released. The employee went to close the kettle and came in contact with the hot broth (approximately 200 degrees) resulting in second-degree burns to their legs.

On January 26, 2025, at 1:30 p.m., an employee was replacing a temperature probe in a sterilizer and was burned by residual hot water and steam within the line. The employee was hospitalized for first- and second-degree burns to the face, neck, and arm.

An employee was working on a condenser in the power plant. He was pulling on the belts when a belt amputated their left ring fingertip.

An employee was using an onion peeler. As they went to remove stuck onion peels, the onion peeler caught their glove and pulled their hand in. The employee was hospitalized and required skin graft surgery.

A broth tank was opened, releasing 7,500 pounds of boiling liquids and solids. An employee suffered multiple burns to the body.

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

An employee's right middle finger was caught in a nip point. The employee suffered an amputation to the middle finger at the first knuckle.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.