Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was operating an automated drill and rivet machine and was getting the machine lined up against the crossmember on the trailer side. As the employee was feeling for the crossmember, the machine cycled and the stability bar engaged, resulting in amputation of their index fingertip. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.

An employee was working the hat channel jig and suffered the amputation of their left middle finger.

On May 14, 2021, at approximately 8:30 a.m., an employee was performing sandblasting operations on the inside rear of a trailer. The trailer was secured to a fixture that allows the trailer to be rotated in order to access different parts of the trailer frame. The counterweight had not been added to the frame or fixture and when the employee began to rotate the trailer, the trailer swung down and collided with their left ankle. The employee was hospitalized for an acute displaced fracture of the left tibia and fibula.

An employee was using an overhead crane to unload wooden floor boards onto the sub-assembly of a tractor-trailer frame when his left middle fingertip was caught between a load spreader bar and a sub-assembly cross member, requiring medical amputation.

On May 31, 2016, at approximately 7:00am an employee received a laceration with cuts to the lower artery and three tendons of his left forearm when the 140 lb. bulkhead he was carrying fell from his hands. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

An employee was diagnosing the lack of flow of product to a powder bin. The employee removed the rotary star valve below the bin. While he was reinstalling the valve, his right middle finger was crushed between its shaft and its housing. The finger was partially amputated.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

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 conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

An excavator bucket was being removed. An employee was pulling a snap ring to remove a pin and lost his grip. The high-tension snap ring recoiled and his left middle fingertip was amputated by the snap ring.

An employee was assisting with rigging a magnet to an overhead crane in order to lift a sheet of steel. The employee's right thumb was between the crane's hook and the chain passing through the hook, and when the crane was raised, the distal end of their thumb was crushed. Part of the employee's right thumb was medically amputated.

Two employees were working together to insert a pin into a hydraulic cylinder. One employee was holding the cylinder in place to align it with the pinhole, while the injured employee was inserting the pin. The injured employee was aligning the pin and moved to determine whether the hole alignment was too high or low. At that moment, the crowbar being used to assist with alignment slipped and his left index fingertip was pinched between the cylinder and the housing, resulting in an amputation just below the fingernail.

An employee was hoisting an axle in the buggy department when one side of the sling came loose, causing the axle to tip. The sling hook raised up from the weight transfer, causing the employee's left little finger to be caught by the rigidness of the hook. The fingertip was amputated.

An employee was using a circular saw to cut the cap off an aluminum bulkhead of a trailer that was being manufactured. The saw kicked, lacerating his hand and resulting in the amputation of his left middle and ring fingertips.

Two employees were installing skirts on the side of a trailer. The injured employee's left glove was caught by the rotating drill bit that another employee was operating, resulting in a partial amputation to their left little fingertip.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.

An employee was walking through the dining room when she slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured left femur.