International Paper - Mansfield Mill

An employee worked a shift and later experienced cramping in his arms and legs. He was hospitalized with dehydration.

The injured employee was attempting to open a valve with a valve wrench. The wrench slipped and started to spin in the direction opposite of what the employee intended. The employee attempted to retrieve the wrench when the tip of his left middle finger was crushed between the valve and the wrench and was amputated.

A welder was tasked with a repair project on a de-barker machine. He was carrying a 44-pound roll of welding wire to the location. Accessing the de-barker drum requires walking down a rubber conveyor. While stepping onto the conveyor, the employee slipped. This caused him to drop the roll of wire onto his right hand. He sustained crushing injuries to the fingers on his right hand and required surgery for his right middle finger.

Due to heavy rains, the wood chips lying on the #1 Reclaim Circulating Chip Conveyor became saturated and heavy to the extent that the weight yanked the gear box from the structural base. In order to make repairs, a maintenance employee was manually moving the gearbox chain tooth by tooth. When he released the chain on the third tooth/notch, he had his ring finger between the chain and the sprocket when the chain jumped causing his finger to be pinched. As the pinch was occurring, the employee pulled his finger back, which caused the skin to be removed at the tip of his finger. The incident resulted in the amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was working on the grill when they began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized to treat heat-related illness. The air conditioning was not working at the location.

An employee had been working in a fabrication area conducting preassembly of solar modules. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness, rhabdomyolysis, and renal failure.

An employee was working in the baking chambers of the tire retread center for 5.5-6 hours in approximately 100-degree heat. He developed severe pain and full body cramping. The employee was hospitalized with severe dehydration and heat exhaustion resulting in back pain and a kidney injury.

An employee was working at an individual selection machine when he began to suffer heat stress, resulting in hospitalization.

On August 8, 2025, an employee developed muscle cramps and dizziness. Later, while working on a plant floor, he developed full-body cramps. He was hospitalized, suffering from head exhaustion.

An employee worked a shift and later experienced cramping in his arms and legs. He was hospitalized with dehydration.

An employee was adjusting a trim sheet leading to a sheeter machine. Their glove became caught in the machine and the shearer closed on the employee's right hand, crushing it and breaking the hand and wrist.

An employee was troubleshooting a process upset. A nearby refiner had a pressure spike, causing the housing to separate slightly, which allowed the loss of primary containment. The employee was sprayed by hot water, resulting second- and third-degree burns on his torso and left arm.

On July 22, 2024, at 10:30 AM, an employee was responding to a pulp mill manufacturing process shutdown. Pulp stock overflowed through an engineered overflow pipe resulting in a buildup of stock in a bermed area. The stock was 140 to 150 degrees. The employee went to the bermed area to close an air-actuated process valve. While closing the valve, pulp stock entered the top of his boots and caused second-degree burns to both of his lower legs down to his feet. The employee was hospitalized.

A 15-foot long paper roll was being hoisted by an indoor crane. During the hoisting evolution, an employee's right hand became caught in the hoisting slings and their thumb was partially amputated.

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

A security employee was holstering her firearm when the gun discharged a bullet into her right leg. The employee was hospitalized.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.