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An employee was painting a round module when a front-end loader ran over his right leg and crushed it.

An employee was in a cow pen, freeing a heifer that was stuck in the bottom cable of the pen fence. Once the heifer became untangled and returned to her feet, she charged at the employee and headbutted his lower left leg from behind. He suffered a compound fracture to the tibia and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was de-weeding (by hand) under the base of a citrus tree and a rattlesnake bit her right hand.

An employee stood on a conveyor wall to unclog the cotton feeder. The employee fell on the moving conveyor and fractured his right arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Multiple employees were using baling buckets to remove 750 gallons of 150-degree hydraulic oil out of a pit in a confined space for approximately 5.5 hours. The injured employee was standing on a ladder performing this task when they fell feet-first into the hydraulic oil pit, resulting in burns on both legs.

An employee had been working at the nursery and loading trees on a trailer in the heat. The employee experienced symptoms of dehydration including body aches, chills, muscle pain, and cramping.

An employee's fingertip was crushed between a hydraulic clamping device and a post, resulting in an amputation.

An employee transferred a supplement from one tank to another and then took a step backward to begin cleaning the receiving auger. His right foot broke through the grate above the auger and slipped between the slats and into the auger. The employee was hospitalized with a compound fracture to his lower right leg and required surgery.

An employee was using scissors to cut dead wood from a citrus tree when he dropped the scissors. He reached down to pick them up and was bit by a rattlesnake on the left hand.

An employee was carrying signs to the front of a nursery when they tripped on a curb and fell, resulting in a twisted left ankle and fractured right shoulder.

An employee was riding a manlift (elevator) up to the fourth floor of a building. His right leg was struck and pinched by the third-floor structure as he ascended. The leg was broken.

An employee was working in the pecan orchard. He went to cross a cement irrigation ditch via a wooden plank that was extended across the ditch. The wooden plank snapped in two, and the employee fell approximately 2 feet, 8 inches into the irrigation ditch. The employee was hospitalized with two fractures to his lower left leg.

An employee was installing a fan in a dairy stall. They were standing on a 4-by-6-foot wooden pallet with a solid top that was lifted on a pallet fork attached to a loader. The bottom brace board on the pallet broke, causing the pallet to flip forward. The employee subsequently fell forward onto a pipe railing, resulting in internal traumatic injuries to their pelvic and abdominal areas.

An employee was administering an IV to a cow. The cow jerked and the needle swung and struck the employee's eye. The employee sustained a puncture wound to the eye's sclera and was hospitalized.

An employee was hospitalized after he was found lying on a warehouse floor, bleeding from his nose and right ear. The employee sustained a depressed skull fracture on the right side of his head, multiple dislocated cervical fractures, a laceration to his right ear, a fracture to his right scapula tip, and wedge compression fractures to his T2 and T4 vertebrae.

An employee slipped and his hand got caught in a sprig tumbler as he used it to brace his fall. The employee suffered an amputation of fingers on his left hand and was hospitalized.

An employee was removing cotton build-up from a roller gin when their hand was pulled into the rollers. The employee sustained soft tissue damage to their right hand and forearm.

An employee was using an electric module tarp roller to roll up used module tarps for storage. The employee's thumb became caught in the module tarp roller and his arm was pulled into the roller bar. The employee sustained a fractured left wrist.

An employee was operating a manlift while cleaning module vents. He was moving the manlift to the next vent when the manlift pinned him against a building truss. The employee sustained broken ribs and a lung injury.

An employee was unclogging an auger when he fell to the floor and his left ankle twisted, resulting in a broken ankle.

An employee was cleaning around the seed auger when they lost their balance and became caught in the auger. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to both of his legs.

An employee was letting cows out of a pen when a cow jumped the gate and struck the employee's head, knocking him down and resulting in a brain bleed.

An employee was stepping down from an ergonomic stand for a machine. She lost her balance and fell backward, hitting the machine's metal frame and suffering a broken rib and a laceration to her liver.

An employee was helping to disconnect a pull-behind turf grass mower from the drawbar of a utility tractor when the mower's hitch tongue fell onto their right foot. The employee sustained a fracture and dislocated bones.

An employee was riding a horse and attempting to rope a calf in the pasture. The employee's horse stepped in a hole, and both the horse and the employee fell to the ground. The horse fell on top of the employee, resulting in a broken pelvis.