American Food and Vending

While cutting vegetables with a knife, an employee sustained a left middle fingertip amputation.

An employee sustained a hernia while carrying a 25-pound gas cylinder. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was loading a 4-inch wooden door into a pickup truck when he felt a pop in his right side behind his shoulder blade. He was hospitalized later that day and underwent surgery, having suffered a collapsed right lung.

An employee was lifting a crate of dairy product and felt severe back pain. The employee was hospitalized with a burst blood vessel in their lower back.

An employee experienced sharp pain in his lower torso area while loading baggage into the front cargo pit of an aircraft. The employee sustained a hernia.

An employee was lifting a box of produce in the backroom area when she suffered pain in her lower back and was unable to stand, resulting in hospitalization.

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.

An employee was cleaning a steam kettle; he had the floor grate lifted to access the drain area. He tripped on the open floor grate, striking his knee against the steam kettle's drain pipe and falling onto multiple pieces of kitchen equipment. He landed on the floor, where he struck his head. He was hospitalized with lacerations to his ear, which required surgery to repair.

An employee was outside a freight elevator, reaching in, when the elevator moved and crushed her right hand. She suffered a broken arm and wrist and was hospitalized, requiring muscle surgery.

On September 29, 2025, an employee was removing a pan of pasta from the stove when the pan tipped over. Hot water contacted her legs and feet, resulting in burns to both feet that required hospitalization.

An employee was walking through a passageway sideways when the edge of her shoe got caught and she fell onto her right hip, resulting in a broken femoral head.

An employee slipped while climbing a ladder on a skidder, fell to the ground, and suffered a tibia/fibula fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was lowering the bucket of a track loader that contained a grade stake and the grade stake punctured his foot, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.

An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.

An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.