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An employee was unloading a motor from a flatbed trailer when his foot caught on a board on the trailer, causing him to fall. As he was falling, his right index finger got caught between the motor and its transport carrier, resulting in a fingertip amputation that required surgery.

An employee was cleaning a pneumatic rotary cup filler and sustained an amputation to the left thumb tip.

An employee was changing out a customer's windshield. The employee was carrying the windshield into the shop from outside when he slipped on ice. The windshield cut the tip of his right middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was on a watercraft tying the boat to the dock cleat when her finger became caught in the rope. The boat moved, causing the rope to tighten. The employee sustained a left ring fingertip amputation.

An employee was clearing a jam of packaging material on a packaging machine. The crosscut blades inside the machine activated and contacted his left hand, causing partial amputations to his thumb and index finger.

An employee was using a drill with a ground rod attached to wind up a line to pull a flat mule line from transformer to transformer. His left little finger became wrapped in the line and was partially amputated.

An employee was working on a shoring scaffold with another employee to strip plywood from cement. The employees threw a 4x4 piece of forming down and it got stuck on the beam of the scaffold. The injured employee went to grab the forming when their left ring fingertip was pinched between it and the beam, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee loaded a steel part onto a brake press to be formed. During the second bend of the material, a pinch point was created between the material and the tooling of the machine. The pinch point contacted the employee's index and middle fingertips, resulting in amputations below the nail and above the knuckle.

A door closed on an employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee and co-worker were lifting a generator when it was dropped onto the employee's left hand, resulting in a partial amputation of a finger.

A liftgate was dropped on an employee's leg. The employee sustained a partial amputation and required hospitalization.

An employee was repositioning a load of 60-pound steel rods when a bar rolled onto the employee's thumb. His thumb became caught between the decking and rods, resulting in an amputation of the right thumb below the nail.

An employee was using a table saw to cut plywood and amputated two fingers on the left hand. The machine was not guarded at the time.

An employee was cutting lumber with a chop saw. As the employee was removing a piece of wood, the saw lacerated the employee's fingers. One finger was amputated.

An employee was working during a cold weather event to break ice from water troughs for calves. The employee suffered frostbite in his fingers, resulting in surgical amputations to six fingers.

An employee was removing a temporary window. His left thumb was caught, and partially amputated, between the 2-by-4 window jamb and a piece of metal.

An employee was working with a catwalk, changing out a cable. After removing the skate cable, the employee and a co-worker were adjusting the skate to install the new cable. The co-worker positioned himself on the driller side of the catwalk; the injured employee was on the off driller side. As the employee made his way down the catwalk, he placed his right hand on the index pin of the catwalk trough to gain leverage. As the skate's momentum carried it forward, it pinched the employee's right thumb against the pin. The tip of the thumb was amputated.

An employee was operating a hydraulic log splitter to cut wood. His right hand became caught between the ram of the machine and the wood, resulting in a right ring finger and partial little finger amputation.

At 1:06 p.m. on December 27, 2022, an employee was straightening a board in a pallet machine. A sprocket in the machine caught and partially amputated his right ring finger.

An employee was using a band saw to cut pork chops when his finger became caught in the blade, resulting in a left index fingertip amputation.

Three employees were assessing an exhaust fan that had a noise problem. The unit was deenergized, and the belt was being manually spun, when one employee's glove was caught between the moving belt and the pulley. The belt amputated his right ring fingertip.

An employee was sitting on a 24-inch folding stool when they fell off the stool and the stool collapsed. The foldable legs of the stool amputated the employee's right index finger.

An employee was sweeping the floor when an altercation began with a building tenant. The employee was bitten, resulting in an amputation to the tip of the left thumb.

An employee was removing a shackle that a cow was hanging from when their finger was caught in a pinch point, resulting in a partial amputation to their right index finger and a fracture to their right middle finger.

An employee was lifting and moving a 240-pound wheel riser when the wheel riser fell on employee s hand, resulting in an amputation of the left middle finger.