Cut and Sew Apparel Contractors

NarrativeOn December 5, 2012, Employee #1 of Three Dots was injured. Employee #1, who works in the employer's Cutting Department, returned to his station after morning break and turned a Blue Streak cutting machine on to resume cutting. However, he was distracted, momentarily looked away, and his left hand struck the cutting blade. The right side of the fleshy tip of his finger was cut away by the blade. Employee #1 was taken to a local clinic by another employee, and from there he was transferred by emergency responders to a local hospital, where he was treated for his injury.

NarrativeOn September 26, 2012, an Employee #1 was working as a warehouse tagger for a manufacturer of casual clothing. Employee #1 was a direct hire of the employer. She was pulling orders from warehouse racks and stacking them on a hand truck. A coworker, who was also pulling orders, retrieved a forklift and was backing it up in the same aisle in which Employee #1 was working. He backed the forklift to the right, behind a pallet stacked high with goods, and struck Employee #1, who was pulling orders directly behind the pallet. Her hand truck partly shielded her from the forklift, but she was momentarily pinned between the forklift and a warehouse rack upright before the coworker saw her and pulled the forklift forward. Employee #1 sustained a fractured pelvis, five fractured ribs, and two fractured vertebrae. She was hospitalized for treatment of her injuries. The incident was reported later the same day.

NarrativeAt approximately 2:00 p.m. on October 21, 2011, Employee #1, a sewing machine operator with American Apparel USA, LLC, sustained a laceration to her right ring finger from a metal clothes hanger while repositioning and hanging garments on a portable clothing rack. Two days later, she was admitted to Huntington Hospital for treatment of the laceration and an infection.