U.S. SUGAR CORP.

An employee was adjusting the flat scratcher of a sweep cultivator when the metal tube of the scratcher slid down and caught the tip of the employee's left thumb between the pipe and C-clamp. The employee sustained a left thumb tip amputation.

While performing maintenance on equipment, an employee's right pinky finger was caught between a belt and pulley resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was struck by a train while driving a tractor. He was bounced around inside the cab, suffering contusions.

An employee was installing lift straps when he slipped and his hand entered the bearing point of a mill and bearing roll. His left thumb broke.

An employee had been burning sugar cane. An ember blew into the bed of the employee's pick-up truck and ignited a safety gas can. The employee's left leg was burned.

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 operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

An employee was using a motorized chain hoist to lift a pump weighing 600 to 700 pounds onto a working table. The hoist, which weighed approximately 100 pounds, fell from an overhead crane onto the employee s fingers, resulting in a finger amputation.

A warehouse employee was moving equipment using a dolly and was loading a filler machine when it fell off the dolly onto his left leg. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

While explaining to a co-worker how to install a new gate on the palletizer machine, an employee's left thumb tip was amputated by the machine's piston.

The injured employee and a co-worker were moving a tank car loaded with molasses from the loading station to the designated side of the facility using a wheel loader to pull the rail car. The employees reached an incline and applied the handbrake. While they repositioned the wheel loader to push the rail car the remaining distance to their destination, the rail car started to move backward. The injured employee climbed onto the rear platform of the car to tighten the brake, but the rail car collided with the loader bucket and the employee suffered fractures to their right femur and tibia.

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

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.

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.