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On July 10, 2025, an employee was walking along a catwalk on the fuel tanks when it gave way, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee's leg was broken.

Two steel plates (5 feet by 10 feet by 3/16 inch) had been rigged using a shackle, sling, and tagline, then positioned vertically at the ground level by a crane. An employee detached the rigging from the crane hook and two employees were stabilizing the load as it lowered to a 45-degree angle. As the plates were being lowered, they shifted and caught the left foot of one of the two employees against stacked plates. The employee's left tibia and fibula were broken.

On a vessel, an employee was guiding an anchor cable onto it's spool. The cable tightened and sent the employee back, causing him to strike the A-frame of the vessel. He sustained a fractured left femur.

An employee was performing routine maintenance tasks on a customer's rooftop HVAC unit. The employee was manually inspecting the belts when his glove was caught by the belt. His finger was then pinched between the belt and a sheave and his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was mixing coatings with a mixing drill when her left glove contacted the spindle sleeve area. The employee's left little fingertip was amputated.

An employee had been working on HVAC duct repair on a roof. The employee was descending a fixed ladder on the side of the building when he slipped on the fifth rung and fell approximately 5 feet to the grass. The employee sustained injury to their scapula and fractures to their clavicle and ribs.

An employee was using a rag to clean a switchgear. As the employee was back feeding building power, the main breaker closed, resulting in the back feed of the grid. The employee was shocked.

An employee was preparing steel support rails to be adjusted to the correct elevation in a hangar. The steel angle fell approximately 4 feet and struck the employee's left forearm, resulting in swelling.

An employee was dismantling scaffolding from an elevated platform when they lost balance and fell 30 feet through an opening in the planking.

An employee was performing plumbing work on a roof. While drilling a hole in the roof, the drill's chuck caught the employee's glove and his little finger was twisted around the shaft and amputated at the knuckle.

An employee was walking down the stairs of a job-site single-wide trailer to exit when he fell onto the asphalt adjacent to the stairs. The employee sustained cuts and scrapes on both knees and the right forearm that required surgery, and contusions on the right side of the ribs.

At 8:15 a.m. on October 27, 2022, an employee was hanging a calendar on a wall. He was on the second step of a ladder, waiting to be brought a level, when he fell. His right leg hit the ladder's side rail as he fell and he suffered a broken right tibia.

At 1:00 p.m. on September 15, 2022, an employee was on a utility pole disconnecting its cross-arms. The pole broke and the employee fell with it onto adjacent tree branches, then to the ground 30 feet below. The employee was hospitalized for multiple contusions and fractures to the head and torso as well as internal bleeding.

An employee had climbed an 8-foot A-frame ladder to reach a ceiling to replace a section of copper pipe. He placed plywood above the t-grid ceiling framing, and was above the ceiling when he tripped on a junction box, and fell approximately 9 feet, landing on the concrete floor. The employee suffered fractures to the tibia, fibula, and ankle, and a dislocated left foot.

An employee was drilling a hole in a trailer wall to mount a camera. He stopped midway to replace the drill bit with an extension. The drill then activated as he was tightening the chuck with his left hand. It amputated his left little finger and dislocated the ring and middle fingers.

An employee was unloading pipe to place in a trench. A skid steer backed up and bumped the employee, causing him to lose balance and fall into the 3.5-foot deep trench. The employee sustained a fractured femur and hip.

An employee was on scaffolding using a miter saw on a stand to cut wood. The stand moved and pulled the employee's left hand into the blade, resulting in a little finger amputation.

An employee slipped on wet plywood while trying to tie off on a roof. The employee fell 13 to 16 feet and suffered broken bones.

An employee was stripping and removing concrete form work. The employee stepped up onto the concrete form work. The metal pole brace used to adjust the wall form was unattached at the top. The employee fell approximately 27 inches and the 12-foot metal pole struck them in the head, resulting in an orbital fracture near their right eye, a fractured nose, and a head laceration.

An employee was performing conduit work when he fell 6 feet from an A-frame ladder. The employee sustained a compound fracture to their lower left leg.

An employee was using an industrial drill, drilling holes for footings. The kelly cable drive was not retracting properly on the machine's drum, so the employee tried to disconnect the cable to re-spool the drum. He backed out the threaded pin from the kelly drive clevis that was holding the cable drive end. As he tried to push the pin through, his right middle finger was pinched in the clevis and cable. The finger was amputated at the first joint.

An employee was mixing acoustic material with a hand drill. The drill caught a rag he was holding, and his left hand was pulled into the turning chuck. His little finger was severely lacerated and fractured, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee stepped from the wire bridge to the winch wall and lost his footing on the wall. His left leg and knee struck the wall as he fell resulting in a fractured lower leg and damage to his knee cap.

A forklift was being used to take material off a roof. Its forks and the load became stuck in the roofing material; the forks dislodged and struck the employee in the face, causing a broken nose and a facial laceration.

On 11/21/2019, employees were securing the crawler crane's boom and the headache ball to the barge so they could transfer the crane to another work location. When the crane operator lowered the boom, the line that held the headache ball 30 feet up in the air released and the headache ball fell. It bounced on the deck of the barge and struck the injured employee who was assisting in securing the lines to the barge. The employee's right toe was crushed and later amputated.