Bottling Group LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Nov 17, 2021: Employee fractures foot and vertebrae in fall from ladder

At 12:40 p.m. on November 17, 2021, an employee was climbing a non-extended extension ladder to access a piece of equipment. While stepping off the ladder to access the room's landing area, the employee slipped and fell to the ground below. The employee was hospitalized for 7 days to treat fractures to his foot and lower back vertebrae.

Incident on May 7, 2020: Employee fractures leg when struck by electric pallet jack

At 10:35 p.m. on May 7, 2020, Employee #1 was getting pallet jacks at the end of an aisle. Coworker #1 misjudged the braking distance and hit Employee #1 with the electric pallet jack. Employee #1 suffered a fractured leg and was hospitalized.

Incident on Jan 19, 2019: Worker fractures fingers when contacting rotating rollers

At 12:15 p.m. on January 19, 2019, an employee was working for a firm that bottled soft drinks. She was operating a Krones Contiroll labeler on line Number 2 and performing routine registration tasks. She was pulling out a label strip from a set of rotating rollers. She was holding the label in her left hand while operating a jog pendant with her right hand. She stopped when she saw a fault light on the human-machine interface (HMI) monitor screen. She was about to clear the fault when, she claimed, the rollers rotated in the opposite direction, pulling the label back into the rollers. Because the worker was holding the label, her left hand was pulled into the machine between the two rollers. She sustained fractures of the distal phalanges of the third and fourth fingers. She was taken first to St. Rose Hospital and then to Eden Medical Center and the East Bay Hand Medical Clinic. She was discharged within seven hours. Surgical repair required that the index (fourth) finger on her left hand be shortened 2mm (0.08 inches).