Severe Workplace Injuries in Fort Morgan, Colorado

Oct 1, 2025 · Cargill, Incorporated Hospitalized

A maintenance employee was removing an inspection plate from an industrial cooker. Hot liquid spilled onto him and burned his hands, arms, and torso area. He was hospitalized.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Trunk and other upper extremities · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1853780

Jul 7, 2025 · Blueprint Skilled Services, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was cutting wood and installing wood backing in an elevator shaft. He retrieved a rolling baker scaffold from the drywall crew and positioned it near the work area. He placed the wood on the scaffold and climbed up. While nailing a piece into place, he lost his balance and slipped. To steady himself, he grabbed the newly installed wood, but the wood detached and he fell into the elevator shaft. He sustained fractures to his ribs and pelvis and a laceration to the head.

Other fall to lower level · Multiple trunk locations · Administrative, staffing and waste services · OSHA inspection 1837565

Feb 25, 2025 · Cargill Meat Solutions Amputation

An employee was in the basement when he observed animal blood dripping from a small hole in the auger trough. The employee went to plug the hole with a small piece of fat. As the employee pushed the fat into the hole, the auger flight caught his fingertip, resulting in amputation between the nailbed and first knuckle.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing

Jul 17, 2024 · Cargill, Inc Hospitalized

On July 17, 2024, an employee was trying to retrieve his knife from the bottom of a sterilizer. Water in the sterilizer, heated to 180 degrees, entered the employee's right glove and burned his palm and the top of his hand. He was hospitalized.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Hand(s), except finger(s) · Manufacturing

May 21, 2024 · The Western Sugar Cooperative Amputation

An employee was clearing a jam in the bag sealer machine in the warehouse when his right thumb was caught in the belt and pulley, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing

Apr 16, 2024 · Leprino Foods Company Amputation

An employee was troubleshooting a valve and amputated their left index fingertip above the first knuckle.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing

Aug 17, 2023 · Slick Spot Farm & Truck Tire Amputation

An employee was inflating a truck tire when the tire ring popped, striking their right thumb and resulting in a partial amputation.

Struck by dislodged flying object, particle · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Other services

Dec 20, 2022 · Cargill, Incorporated Amputation

An employee was attaching the paddle bone pull to remove the bones from a meat carcass. The paddle bone pull came down on the employee's finger, severing it. The tip of the finger was later reattached.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1641554

Jul 8, 2022 · Cargill, Incorporated Amputation

An employee was reaching to pull a piece of meat out of a vertical bandsaw when the bandsaw amputated the employee's right little fingertip.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1608000

Apr 15, 2022 · Simplot AB Retail, Inc Hospitalized

An employee was checking fertilizer levels from the top of a tendering trailer. The employee fell off the trailer from a height of about 7 feet and suffered broken ribs. He was hospitalized.

Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Wholesale trade

Mar 9, 2022 · AGTAC SERVICES LLC Hospitalized

A security worker was thrown against a brick wall, then beaten, by someone she had refused to allow into a building. She lost consciousness and suffered bruises and a broken skull, with multiple brain bleeds.

Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Brain · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Jan 24, 2022 · The Western Sugar Cooperative Hospitalized

An employee was walking to a storeroom. The employee slipped on a metal plate (which was lying on the floor to protect a height transition in the concrete floor), fell, and landed on his left hip where a two-way radio was attached. He suffered a broken femur.

Fall on same level due to slipping · Thigh(s) · Manufacturing

Dec 19, 2021 · Cargill Meat Solutions Hospitalized

An employee was ascending a ladder. One of the ladder legs broke and the employee fell, resulting in a broken left wrist.

Fall from collapsing structure or equipment · Wrist(s) · Manufacturing

Nov 12, 2021 · Cargill Meat Solutions Hospitalized

An employee was attempting to pick up a hide from the ground while holding a skinning knife in one hand and lacerated his chin.

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Jaw, chin · Manufacturing

Nov 11, 2021 · Dinklage Feed Yard Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was stepping off a front-end loader when he slipped and hit his head on concrete. The employee was hospitalized.

Other fall to lower level · Brain · Agriculture, forestry and fishing

Apr 13, 2021 · Western Sugar Cooperative Hospitalized

An employee was changing safety filters when a filter that was under pressure sprayed hot juice onto the employee, resulting in burns to the neck and back.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Neck and back · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1526599

Feb 5, 2021 · Cargill Hospitalized

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder in a cooler and fell approximately 15' to the floor, sustaining fractures to the left arm and left hip.

Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing

Dec 17, 2020 · The Bar S U Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was repairing a gas tube heater from a 15-foot ladder leaning against the raised forks of a forklift. The ladder slipped out from under him and he fell about 10 feet, suffering a spine injury and a head wound that required stitches.

Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Back, including spine, spinal cord · Construction

Nov 25, 2020 · CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION Hospitalized

While on break, an employee climbed over a stair rail and fell 40 feet to the concrete below, resulting in broken legs and a spine injury.

Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1508724

Sep 7, 2020 · Western Sugar Cooperative Hospitalized

Two maintenance employees were inspecting the Omega coupling on the high melter pump. During inspection, the employees realized the shaft on the pump was broken rather than the coupling. The maintenance supervisor was going to locate a rebuilt seal assembly for the pump. The employees started removing the seal assembly from the pump. As one of the employees removed the base plate bolts from the pump, the head pressure from the high melter tank pushed the seal assembly out of the pump casing and hot sugar juice sprayed onto the employees causing first and second degree burns to the upper and lower arm, hand and chest areas.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Shoulder(s) and arm(s) · Manufacturing

Jan 20, 2020 · Morgan County Rural Electric Association Hospitalized

An employee suffered burns and lacerations to both hands while cutting a ground wire.

Direct exposure to electricity · Hand(s) · Utilities

Sep 25, 2019 · Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. Amputation

An employee was operating a side puller that removes animal hides when his hand was caught in the gripper, resulting in amputations of the fourth and fifth fingertips.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1435129

Jul 24, 2019 · CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION Hospitalized

An employee was operating a forklift when the side of the forklift came in contact with a guard that was protecting a piece of equipment. The guard snapped and hit the employee in the elbow resulting in a laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle · Elbow(s) · Manufacturing

Mar 15, 2019 · THE WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE Hospitalized

An employee slipped and fell down stairs, breaking the right ankle.

Other fall to lower level · Ankle(s) · Manufacturing

Feb 23, 2019 · The Western Sugar Cooperative Hospitalized

An employee was changing filter bags on a pan water filter. As the employee was form-fitting the filter to the basket, 200-degree water flowed into the employee's glove, causing second degree burns (and a subsequent infection) to the employee's left wrist/hand.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Hand(s) and wrist(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1383884

Jan 16, 2019 · LEPRINO FOODS COMPANY Hospitalized

An employee was rinsing cheese conveyor belts when he saw a piece of cheese on a weigh belt and attempted to remove it. His arm was then caught in the weigh belt, resulting in a broken forearm. The weigh belt was guarded at the time of the incident.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Forearm(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1372872

Nov 1, 2018 · Bauer Underground, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was working on a piece of directional drilling equipment. Its fan blade lacerated the employee's right thumb, index, and middle fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

Caught in running equipment or machinery · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Construction

Jul 13, 2018 · Basic Energy Services Hospitalized

On 7/13/2018, an employee climbed an 8-foot A-frame ladder to tape an area for painting. The employee finished and was starting to descend when the employee missed one of the ladder rungs and fell to the ground. The employee suffered a head cut and broken right ankle, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Other fall to lower level · Ankle(s) · Mining, oil and gas

May 21, 2018 · CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS Hospitalized

An employee was inspecting a hydraulic hose for leaks when another employee activated the hock cutter that was powered by the hose, releasing a high-pressure stream of hydraulic fluid into the employee's right hand. The fluid cut his hand and was injected under his skin.

Struck by discharged object or substance · Hand(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1319415

Feb 2, 2018 · Ensign United States Drilling, Inc. Amputation

An employee was moving a large job site tool. The tool fell and caught his right hand resulting in amputation of the pinky fingertip.

Struck by falling object or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Mining, oil and gas · OSHA inspection 1295936