Cobra Anchors Corporation

An employee was operating a clipping machine when their left hand contacted the die of the machine, resulting in fractures to their thumb and middle finger and an index fingertip amputation.

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 working on a portable stainless-steel vessel equipped with a butterfly valve at the bottom. The employee used a crane to raise the vessel and connected an airline to the valve control. Upon activating the compressed air supply, the valve opened. While holding the bottom of the vessel with their left hand, the airline disconnected and the valve closed on their left index fingertip. The employee sustained an avulsion of the fingernail, an open nondisplaced fracture of the distal phalanx, and partial amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was in training to learn how to change steel dies on a culvert machine. The employee was on top of the machine when the handheld control was activated, engaging the machine's auto-run function. The employee's feet were dragged into the roller dies, resulting in a left ankle fracture, a laceration between the ankle and knee, and amputation of the the big toe and second toe on the right foot.

An employee was walking up the stairs in an office area. Their right foot caught the edge of the stair at the top of the stairwell and they fell forward. The employee sustained a neck fracture.

An employee was feeding a strip of steel into a power press when it activated and contacted the injured employee's left hand. The employee suffered amputations of the first two digits of the hand.

A brake press cycled while an employee's hand was still inside it, crushing four of the employee's fingers.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

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 pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.