Madison Wisconsin is a city with a lot of history, and it’s also home to a lot of machinery. In fact, according to the United States Census Bureau, Madison is the fifth most populous city in Wisconsin and the twentieth most populous city in the United States. That means there’s a lot of machinery out there, and as you might expect, accidents can happen. In fact, it’s one of the cities with the highest number of machinery accidents. This is likely because there are a lot of industrial and manufacturing plants in Madison. Many of these plants use heavy machinery that can cause serious injuries if not handled properly.
Manufacturing Companies
Madison is home to a number of high-tech and manufacturing companies, including
Aj Sheet Metal LLC Promega Corporation Vp Holdings Corporation Sub-Zero, Inc. Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC Clasen Quality Chocolate, Inc. Tomotherapy Incorporated |
Bell Laboratories, Inc. Madison-Kipp Corporation Bou-Matic LLC Madison One Holdings LLC Diesel Forward, Inc. Therma-Stor LLC Captel, Inc. |
These companies provide employment for thousands of people in Madison and surrounding counties.
Machinery Accidents
Madison Wisconsin is home to a number of different businesses and factories, which can lead to accidents involving machinery. If you have been injured in a machinery accident in Madison, WI, contact an experienced Wisconsin lawyer as soon as possible. A lawyer can help you identify all the legal options available to you and fight for the maximum compensation possible.
In recent years, there have been a number of accident reports in Madison. The following list shows details from these reports:
AccidentDate | Employer | City | State | Description | Injury | Body Part | Event | Injury Source | Other Injury Source |
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05/11/2021 | SSM Health Wisconsin Regional Office | Madison | Wi | An employee was treating a patient. The employee turned slightly and felt a sharp pain in their lower back that prevented them from standing up and resulted in hospitalization. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Lumbar region | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode | Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker | |
27/10/2021 | TruGreen Lawn Care | Madison | Wi | Two employees were repairing a latch on a roll-up door. The door came down on one employee's head, causing fractures to the skull, an eye socket, and a cheekbone. The employee was hospitalized. | Fractures | Multiple head locations | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate | Garage doors | |
15/10/2021 | Target Corporation | Madison | Al | An employee was operating a powered industrial truck (pallet end rider - double) when his foot became wedged between his equipment and a parked tugger resulting in fractures and lacerations. | Fractures | Foot (feet) | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway | Pallet jack-powered | Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c |
13/10/2021 | Fletchline, Inc. | Madison | Al | An employee was adjusting the tension on the pulley's belt for the conveyor. His right index finger was caught between the drive and the rotating pulley's belt, resulting in broken bones and lacerations. | Fractures | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Conveyors-powered | |
26/09/2021 | Madison Lumber Mill Inc. | Madison | Nh | An employee was clearing a jam in a machine. A board kicked back, struck him in the face, and broke his jaw. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | Fractures | Jaw, chin | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle | Wood, lumber | Machinery |
24/09/2021 | Tribe 9 Foods LLC | Madison | Wi | An employee was clearing debris from a pasta machine. The employee's fingers contacted the cutting blades, which caused amputations to the left middle, ring, and little fingers. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects | Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized | |
20/09/2021 | DE BEUKELAER CORPORATION | Madison | Ms | An employee had been installing a new roll of foil on a cookie wrapping machine. The employee was pulling the foil towards herself when the foil cutting blades caught her right middle finger resulting in amputation up to the nailbed. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects | Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery | |
17/09/2021 | Unitypoint Health At Work | Madison | Wi | An employee slipped and fell on a wet floor, suffering a broken left ankle. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping | Floor | Liquids |
17/09/2021 | UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital | Madison | Wi | An employee was assisting a patient get up from the CT table and move across the room. The employee's right foot got caught in the CT table straps; the employee fell forward into the wall and then down to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a right patellar fracture and a fractured left radius. | Fractures | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object | Floor | Tables, worktables |
17/09/2021 | Griffin Industrial Contracting Company | Madison | Al | An employee was working on an overhead screen guard and leaning over to check jig alignment on the line. The employee had cut the welds loose on a check gig and held it up with a come-along to relocate it. The remaining single bead broke loose, causing the check gig to catch the employee's left-hand fingers against the column for the top of the check gig. The little finger was crushed and lacerated and the ring finger was partially amputated at the nailbed. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment | Nonclassifiable | |
16/08/2021 | System One Holdings LLC | Madison | Al | An employee tripped on a curb while crossing a parking lot and fell, landing on their left hand and suffering a broken left wrist. | Fractures | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs | Curbs | |
05/08/2021 | Gerber Collision LLC | Madison | Wi | An employee was using a pry bar to reshape a metal auto rail. The tool came loose and struck the employee's nose, causing a laceration. The long edge of the pry bar struck and ruptured the employee's left eye. | Open wounds | Eye(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c. | Crowbars | |
15/07/2021 | Certco, INC. | Madison | Wi | On 7/15/2021 at 9:00 a.m., an employee was traveling down a warehouse aisle on an electric pallet jack when a forklift struck the pallet jack at an aisle intersection. The employee was pinned to the pallet jack by the palletized materials on the forklift, resulting in leg fractures that required surgery. | Fractures | Leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle | Pallet jack-powered | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered |
25/06/2021 | Hooper Corporation | Madison | Wi | An employee was directing the operator of a digger derrick in placing a wooden utility pole in the ground when the insulated boom of the digger derrick contacted an overhead powerline and the employee's leg contacted the energized utility pole, resulting in third degree burns to his knee and foot. | Third or fourth degree electrical burns | Foot(feet) and knee(s) | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts | Utility and telephone poles | Power lines, transformers, convertors |
23/06/2021 | William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital | Madison | Wi | An employee was changing out an overhead coffee filter on an industrial coffee maker when hot water poured down on the employee, resulting in burns to their shoulder, chest, and arm. | Heat (thermal) burns | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances | Water | Beverage heating and percolating equipment and appliances |
14/06/2021 | J.H. Findorff & Son Inc. | Madison | Wi | A fork truck had been used to place metal concrete forms in place. An employee went to manually adjust the "L" sections of the forms by lifting one end with his right hand. The employee was setting down the end of the metal form when it slipped out of his hand pinching the middle fingertip on their left hand. The employee's fingertip was amputated without bone loss. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker | Structural elements | |
26/05/2021 | Tyson Fresh Meats | Madison | Ne | An employee slipped and fell on the floor and fractured their left hip. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping | Floor | |
10/05/2021 | Wilson Lumber Co., Inc. | Madison | Al | An employee was working to free a truss on the exterior of a building that was hung under one of the rollers of the finish conveyor. The finish roller conveyor was put into reverse and the truss moved backward causing the employee's leg to get caught between the truss and rollers. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left leg. | Fractures | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Conveyors-live roller | |
27/04/2021 | Berntsen Brass & Aluminum Foundry, Inc. | Madison | Wi | On April 27, 2021, an employee was belt-grinding an aluminum casting when the casting's weight and momentum crushed the employee's left ring finger against a metal cart. The finger was severely lacerated and broken. | Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Grinders, abraders | |
12/04/2021 | Badger Bus Lines, Inc. | Madison | Wi | A bus driver fell into a railing while walking up the steps into a bus. The driver suffered eight broken ribs. | Fractures | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs | Stairs, steps | |
28/03/2021 | Becton, Dickinson and Company | Madison | Ga | An employee was driving a stand-up forklift toward a warehouse. The forklift struck a cardboard pallet while turning, and his left leg was caught between the forklift and the pallet. He suffered a broken left tibia and was hospitalized. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered | Skids, pallets |
16/03/2021 | Research Products Corporation | Madison | Wi | An employee was cleaning a serrated cutting edge in a taping machine through a 3-inch by 3-inch opening. The cutting edge activated and caused an avulsion injury resulting in surgical amputation of their left thumb tip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Sealing, stapling machinery | |
08/03/2021 | Stahler-Meyer Foods, Inc. | Madison | Fl | On March 8, 2021, an employee was adjusting the alignment of a hot dog line machine. When he moved a loader so the hot dogs could drop into a square cup, the loader pinched his right ring finger. He suffered an amputation to the finger without bone loss. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects | Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery | |
03/03/2021 | GP Building Products Operations LP | Madison | Ga | An employee was feeding veneer into the dryer when the veneer became jammed. The employee's right arm was caught in the chain and sprocket while unjamming the veneer, resulting in amputation of the employee's right arm up to the elbow. | Amputations | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery | |
24/02/2021 | Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings | Madison | Wi | An employee slipped and fell on black ice in a parking lot. Her ankle was broken in three places and she was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping | Parking lot | Ice, sleet, snow |
20/02/2021 | JDR Enterprises, Inc. | Madison | Ga | A maintenance worker was clearing a jam in a pelletizer. The employee was using a putty knife near the rotating blade when the putty knife was caught and spun, cutting the employee's hand and breaking his finger. | Fractures | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery | Knives or n.e.c. |
20/02/2021 | Lone Star Framing, LLC | Madison | Al | An employee fell from a roof to the ground at a residential construction site. The employee suffered injuries to the neck and head. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Head and neck | Other fall to lower level | Roofs | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
10/02/2021 | DOTSON ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. | Madison | Al | An employee tripped while on a ladder and missed the bottom rung, falling from a height of 1 foot to a concrete floor and resulting in a broken leg. | Fractures | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Ladders | Floor, n.e.c. |
07/02/2021 | Duncan Machinery Movers, Inc. | Madison | Al | An employee was installing round duct in a clean room ceiling. When he placed his knees on an access hatch door, the latches gave way and the employee fell approximately 10 feet through the opening to the metal floor below. The employee sustained fractured legs and a fractured left shoulder and was hospitalized. | Fractures | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet | Existing floor opening | Floor, n.e.c. |
05/02/2021 | Woodman's Food Market, Inc. | Madison | Wi | An employee was underneath a vehicle unscrewing the drain plug when oil sprayed out at high velocity and caught fire, resulting in second and third degree burns to the employee's back. | Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids | Petroleum fuels, distillates, and products | |
29/01/2021 | Wingra Leasing, LLC | Madison | Wi | An employee was kneeling down, guiding a truck axle onto jack stands 12-14 inches off the ground while another employee operated a forklift to lift the axle. The axle rolled off the jack stands onto the employee, resulting in injuries to the lower back and rib. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Multiple trunk locations | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. | Vehicle and mobile equipment parts | Jacks |
25/01/2021 | Capital Steel Erectors Inc | Madison | Wi | An employee was walking on a catwalk above a stage and seating area. A section of catwalk grating became dislodged, causing the employee and the grating section to fall. The employee struck the floor about 20 feet below and suffered fractures to the right arm, right leg, right ankle, and hips/pelvis. | Fractures | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet | Catwalks | Floor, n.e.c. |
22/01/2021 | SecurAmerica, LLC | Madison | Wi | At about 8:15 p.m., a customer who had been told to leave a mall attacked a security guard. A second guard came over to help and the customer punched her and then kicked her in the head, arm, and back. The second guard was hospitalized, having suffered a concussion and a fractured humerus. | Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions | Multiple body parts | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving | Robber | |
18/01/2021 | D.H. Griffin Contracting, Inc. | Madison | Al | An employee was attempting to push a drill bit back into the drill chuck when the chuck grabbed the employee's glove and twisted the end of the employee's glove along with his left index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Drills-powered | Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves |
12/10/2020 | Diversified Foods and Seasonings, L.L.C. | Madisonville | La | A prep cook was operating a cooking vessel. The vessel boiled over and hot gravy splashed onto the employee. He suffered second-degree burns on his head, face, arms, hands, and torso. | Second degree heat (thermal) burns | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances | Soups, sauces, gravies | |
09/10/2020 | Wolf Paving Co. Inc. | Madison | Wi | An employee was using a rake to grade hot asphalt in a parking lot. The employee tripped over a car stop and fell onto the hot asphalt, suffering second- and third-degree burns to the lower back and arm. The employee was hospitalized. | Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object | Parking lot | Concrete parking blocks and barriers |
25/08/2020 | First Supply LLC | Madison | Wi | An employee was loading a pallet onto a semi-trailer using a fork truck when his left arm was caught between the fork truck and the trailer, resulting in a fractured arm. | Fractures | Arm(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered | Trailers |
24/08/2020 | Omnicell, Inc. | Madison | Wi | On August 24, 2020, two employees were installing the lower shelf inside a carousel used to dispense prescription medicine. The carousel cycled and its door came down on one employee's chest, causing cracked ribs, a collapsed lung, and hematomas. | Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. | Material and personnel handling machinery | |
20/08/2020 | Sub Zero, Inc. | Madison | Wi | An employee was pulling a wheeled cart containing parts to another area of the assembly line. During transport, the cart hit a floor mounted rail track in the aisle, causing the cart to tip over. The cart struck the employee's lower right leg and fractured the tibia and fibula. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. | Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, n.e.c. |
13/08/2020 | Tyson Fresh Meats | Madison | Ne | An employee was taking a piece of product off the skinner and stumbled forward. The employee's fourth finger on the right hand contacted the skinner's blade and the fingertip was amputated. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. | Floor | Butchering machinery |
08/08/2020 | Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc | Madison | Al | An employee was walking to re-rack a product when he fell and had a seizure that may have been heat-related. | Effects of heat and light | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
04/08/2020 | Kroger | Madison | Ms | An employee was opening a package of seafood with a box knife. The knife cut the employee's left thumb, resulting in the amputation of the tip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Box cutters and razor knives | |
22/07/2020 | Trade-Mark Industrial LLC | Madison | Alabama | An employee was connecting a 90 psi, half-inch air hose to a bottle. The hose released from the tank and struck the employee in the neck, lacerating it. The employee was hospitalized. | Cuts, lacerations | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle | Hoses | Containers-pressurized |
04/07/2020 | Placon Corporation | Madison | Wisconsin | An employee's right ring finger was pinched between a cart and a form tool. The employee suffered a soft tissue amputation to the fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Handtools-power not determined | Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered |
29/06/2020 | United Conveyor & Machinery Installation, LLC | Madison | Wisconsin | On 6/29/2020, at approximately 3:38 p.m., an employee was using his lanyard to lift a piece of grating when he fell through the floor opening in the mezzanine, contacting the mezzanine, grating, and/or floor while falling. He suffered lacerations to the head and neck. | Cuts, lacerations | Head and neck | Fall through surface or existing opening | Existing floor opening | Floor, n.e.c. |
17/06/2020 | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Health Administration | Madison | Wisconsin | An employee was walking on a ramp to deliver a laundry cart when she took a step backwards and her foot was caught in a cart track. She fell to the ground and fractured her ankle, requiring hospitalization. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface | Floor irregularity | |
26/05/2020 | R.G. Huston Co., Inc. | Madison | Wisconsin | While helping to install a sanitary sewer, an employee became dehydrated and had signs of heat exhaustion. | Heat exhaustion, prostration | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
19/05/2020 | United Site Services of Mississippi, LLC | Madison | Alabama | An employee climbed on top of a roll-off trash container to remove some debris. As he went to get down from the container, he lost his balance and fell 5 feet to the asphalt ground. He was hospitalized with fractures to his right hip and pelvic bone. | Fractures | Multiple pelvic region locations | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space | Parking lot-paved |
06/04/2020 | Tyson Foods | Madison | Nebraska | An employee was investigating a power outage. As the employee was using a multimeter to see if a panel had power, an arc flash burned the employee's arms and hands. | Electrical burns | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Direct exposure to electricity | Switchboards, switches, fuses | |
31/03/2020 | Stahl-Meyer Foods, Inc. | Madison | Florida | An employee was moving a movable rack containing meats to the smoker when another employee also using a movable rack rammed into him, causing his right middle finger to be caught between the two racks. The employee suffered an amputation without bone loss to his right middle finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c. | Racks-garment and other | Racks-garment and other |
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