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An employee was using a box cutter to open a 5-gallon bucket of paint. The knife slipped and cut the radial artery in his left wrist. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

An employee was welding under a truck. A spark landed in a puddle of brake cleaner, which caught on fire. The fire spread to the employee's pants leg, burning his right calf.

An employee was trying to remove a piece of stuck bark debris from a conveyor system. The conveyor caught the employee's left hand, lacerating the thumb and possibly amputating the index fingertip.

An employee was up in a lift, looking at a conveyor belt to find its serial number. The machine was turned on and the belt broke his left middle finger and removed the skin. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to amputate the fingertip.

An employee was cutting down a tree as part of a land clearing operation. He was walking away from the tree after his cut when the branches struck him, breaking his elbow, ribs, and knee.

An employee was reaching into the second level of a rack to cut a strap on product. A bundle of pipes on the first level of the rack rolled off and struck the employee's right foot, breaking bones.

During drill rig set up, a raised piece of drill pipe slipped out of the pipe stop housing that keeps the pipe from moving when placed in the upright rack and an employee's left thumb was caught and crushed between the pipe and the housing. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

An employee was working from a barge, stabilizing a pier. While the employee was removing dunnage, the employee's left middle and ring fingers were caught between an H-beam and a steel plate. The ring fingertip was surgically amputated.

An employee was using a winch and a cable when his hand was caught between the winch and a truck frame. The employee suffered an amputation.

An employee slipped on ice on the floor next to an ice maker. The employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip.

A braided stainless steel hose (about 1 inch in diameter by 1 foot long) between fixed piping and the discharge side of a compressor on an odorant delivery truck ruptured. Debris from the ruptured hose struck a Chevron Phillips employee on the left side of the face. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing eye surgery.

An employee slipped on ice when walking across a roof and suffered a broken tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was caught between the front of a telehandler and a crane winch that was resting on the ground, resulting in a crushing injury to his chest.

An employee tripped and fell over a step while entering a building. The employee suffered a left-side pelvic fracture.

An employee was walking through a parking lot. She slipped on ice while stepping off a curb and fell to the pavement, breaking her right ankle.

An employee was manufacturing a de-panner using a handheld grinder. The grinder's wheel exploded, lacerating his right middle finger and ring finger. The middle finger was medically amputated at the second knuckle.

On December 31, 2019, an employee was sprayed with hot water/caustic solution when a pipe cap clamp loosened, spraying his back with the cleaning solution in a tank. He sustained first and second degree burns.

While investigating a jammed machine, a maintenance worked suffered an amputation of the left thumb.

An employee suffered a severe injury to a gluteus muscle while carrying an altar up a stairway.

A boiler operator was sitting on a bucket, watching the boiler feed system. He fell while standing up, landing on the floor and breaking his left hip.

An employee fell from a ladder, and a drywall metal packing lacerated his elbow during the fall.

An employee was bending over to pick up a box when he lost his balance and fell to the floor, hitting his head and hip. He suffered a fractured femur.

On December 30, 2019, an employee was getting a roll of paper towels from a pallet when, as the employee stepped backward away from the pallet, the employee's left heel became caught on a loose bit of shrink wrap around the bottom of the pallet. The employee then fell backwards and fractured the right femur, requiring hospitalization.

On December 30, 2019, an employee was beginning to thread a write through a machine when the employee stepped into a cooling tank, suffering a leg burn that required hospitalization.

An employee was standing on a 4-foot step ladder, using a hand drill to screw in a telecommunications cable anchor, when his foot slipped between two rungs, causing him to fall. He suffered a leg injury to the quadricep muscle and tendons.