Huhtamaki, Inc.

An employee was removing a step cam by with a sledgehammer when a piece of the cam broke off, fell, and struck his right forearm.

An employee was folding scrap paper wrap. The employee placed the paper on the floor and folded it over before stepping on the paper to flatten it. When they stepped on the paper, they slipped and fell to the floor, twisting their right ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle that required surgery.

An employee was watching maintenance employees remove a roller from a forming shaft when a piece of steel broke off and impaled the employee in the abdomen.

An employee was working in a cup production area, performing heavy work in a hot area when they began to experience stomach cramps and vision loss. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

While troubleshooting a jam in a laminator machine, the machine cycled and an employee's hand was caught and crushed in the machine, resulting in surgery and hospitalization.

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 clearing a jam and cleaning up loose paper. Her left hand was caught by a rotating cylinder and pulled into the score section in the tower of an envelope machine. Her hand was crushed and multiple fingers were amputated.

An employee's hand was inside a machine when residual energy caused a heavy metal part to fall on their hand. The employee sustained a left index finger amputation.

On March 28, 2025, an employee was changing a printer blanket and got caught by the printer's rollers resulting in amputation of their left index finger.

An employee was cutting paper using a cutting die machine when three fingertips on his right hand were amputated by the cutting die.

On December 18, 2024, an employee was retrieving a cut block of wood from a table saw when they stepped on the foot pedal and the saw activated, resulting in amputation of their left index finger to the second knuckle. The saw was guarded at the time of the incident.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.