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An employee was changing out tong heads and attempting to place a retaining pin. The lever and gear rolled over and crushed the employee's left thumb, resulting in amputation.

An employee was warming a seized line with a torch. A pinhole opening sprayed the employee with nylon, burning the employee's face and arm.

An employee was attempting to fix a piece of equipment. The machine has a drop table with a vinyl belt that catches product from overhead slings and feeds the product, gowns, to the employees so they can pull it off and feed it to the folders. Three employee's attempted to fix a broken belt. As the employees were trying to roll the belt up on the roller, one of the employee's arms got caught in the roller resulting in a fractured forearm.

An employee became lightheaded while bagging groceries. The employee turned, tripped, and fell to the floor, suffering a lower back fracture.

An employee was on a ladder hanging balloons. The ladder slipped and he fell about 14 feet, suffering face fractures and an arm fracture.

An employee was installing light fixtures while standing on an 8-foot step ladder. While stripping a 12 AWG (American wire gauge) conductor, he was shocked, causing him to fall and hit his head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained a laceration to his forehead; a concussion; and orbital, sinus, and forehead fractures.

An employee was helping to place a steel pipe on a pipe rack when it slid off of the forklift and struck their left toe, resulting in a fracture.

An employee arrived at a job site, parked his truck behind a motor grader, and got out of the truck. He was then struck by the grader as it backed up. Its tires rolled over him, breaking his left leg and his pelvis.

A hopper lid pinched an employee's left ring fingertip as he closed it. The fingertip was amputated in front of the fingernail.

An employee was working in a steel pipe yard rolling pipe joints to collect information from mill stencils. As the employee was rolling a pipe joint, three other sections of pipe rolled against the joint. The employee's left little finger was crushed between the pipe wrench and the pipe joint, resulting in a 1-inch amputation to their finger.

An employee tripped and twisted his ankle while stepping down from a machine. He suffered a displaced fracture to the right fibula and a sprained ligament in the right ankle.

An employee was operating a forklift when a flatbed truck drove toward it. The employee's right hand was caught between the forklift's rear cab and the front end of the flatbed. The employee suffered an amputation to the ring finger.

An employee was using a forklift to lift and empty a garbage hopper into a larger trash bin. As he released the hopper to tilt into the bin, his finger was caught between the top part of the hopper and it's frame, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was helping a forklift operator move a large, steel c-channel. The c-channel slipped off the forklift and pinched the employee's left little finger between the c-channel and the fabrication that was being completed, resulting in amputation.

A postal service employee was delivering mail at a customer's home when he fell on the walkway, resulting in a broken right hip.

An employee fell off a loading dock while moving to open a roll-up door. The employee suffered fractures to the right fibula and ankle.

An employee was helping close an automatic gate. The gate pinched the employee's left index finger, causing a partial amputation.

An employee was walking to his car on his lunch break when he tripped, fell, and hit his head on a building wall. The employee sustained a concussion, a laceration, an abrasion, and swelling on his head and eye area.

On December 30, 2021, between 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM, an employee was using mold-killing chemicals to clean the ceiling of a crawl space. The chemicals dripped from the employee's sponge onto the employee's arms and chest, causing first- and second-degree chemical burns.

An employee was trying to adjust a panning belt. His right index finger was under the belt when it pulled in the fingertip. The fingertip was amputated between the belt and the nose roller.

An employee was shutting off a furnace when residual gases in the furnace ignited, causing burns to their face, neck, and left arm.

An employee was walking through the parking lot to his vehicle at the end of a work day. He slipped on ice, fell, and hit his head on the ground, resulting in brain bleeding.

An employee was seating an intermodal onto a chassis when their little finger was caught in a pinch point, resulting in amputation.

An employee was descending a ladder when they missed the second-to-last step and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken hip.

An employee was doing housekeeping in an emergency department patient's room. After mopping the floor, he slipped and fell, landing on the floor and breaking his right hip.