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An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

An employee was assisting the crew with patching and restoring a roadway after the installation of a sewer line. He was helping place and level the blacktop/backfill material over the trench area to bring the road surface back to proper grade. The employee was walking between a forward-moving dump truck and a dirt pile when his right foot was run over by the truck s wheel, causing him to fall. The employee sustained injury to his foot.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was standing on the surface of a steel beam about two feet wide. He slipped and fell backward, landing on the concrete ground about 20 feet below. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.

An employee was closing a rear trailer door in the parking lot when they were struck by a forklift. The employee's lower left leg was crushed between the pallet on the forklift and the trailer. The employee sustained muscle damage to their lower leg.

An employee was fixing a broken purlin at a worksite when they fell from the framing to the concrete floor approximately 19 feet below. The employee sustained brain bleeding and fractures to their face, vertebrae, and wrists.

An employee was working from a boom lift, painting wood trim at a second-story roof level. The lift drove over an unmarked dry well, tipped, and catapulted the employee to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their heels and vertebrae. Fall protection was not being worn at the time of the incident.

An employee was walking across a roof when he fell through a skylight opening. He suffered three fractured lower vertebrae and was hospitalized.

An employee was installing spray-on fire proofing from a scissor lift. The scissor lift tipped over and the employee fell, resulting in multiple fractures to their leg, shoulder, and skull.

The injured employee was watching a crew remove the front drum door from underneath an asphalt grinding/milling machine. He was standing approximately 10 feet away. A chain was being used to drag the door out from under the grinder. As the door (weighing approximately 2,500 pounds) was being pulled out, one side came in contact with the grinder's tracked wheel. The continued force on the door caused it to suddenly pivot around the track foot and strike the injured employee's right foot. This knocked him to the ground and flattened his right boot for an instant, but did not pin him there. The first four toes on his right foot were fractured.

An employee had been climbing up a temporary ladder. He tripped on something on a low roof and struck his head on a piece of racking equipment installed on the roof. He was then descending a ladder and slipped off the ladder approximately halfway down. The employee sustained a laceration and abrasions to the top and back of his head, as well as brain trauma.

An employee was working on a roof. The employee fell through the roof to the ground, suffering fractured ribs and a punctured lung.

An employee was working in the ceiling on an HVAC unit. While switching out a part, an evaporator coil struck the employee in the chest, leading to multiple fractured ribs on their right side. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was installing a ceiling joist for a residential home when they fell from a framing structure and landed on the ground 8 feet below. The employee's right arm was fractured.

An employee had just inspected a roof to find a leak. The employee fell from an upper roof to a lower one about 8 feet below and sustained fractures to their sternum and ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was removing rock from a roof. He fell from the rooftop, suffering a broken leg and a broken rib.

An employee was called to service an air handling unit on a roof. After turning power off to the unit, the employee accessed the blower motor section. The still-moving belt caught the tip of his right ring finger and pinched it against the blower pulley/sheave, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was assisting with temporary traffic control setup when they were struck on the right foot by the outrigger of an excavator. The employee sustained a degloving injury to the top joint (knuckle) of the fourth toe.

An employee was cleaning a seam with weather membrane cleaner. The cleaner soaked into the employee's gloves, and they caught fire when a cigarette was lit. The employee suffered first- and second-degree burns to both hands and was hospitalized.

A flagger was walking behind a mini-excavator. The excavator backed into him and fractured his heels, his left ankle, and his left wrist, as well as injuring a tendon in his left thumb.

An employee was kneeling on the ground while fastening metal studs together using a cordless impact gun. While driving a self-drilling framing screw into a metal stud, the drill point portion of the screw snapped off. This caused the impact gun to slip forward and push the remaining portion of the screw through the employee's glove and into his palm.

An employee was in a bucket truck making electrical connections on primary transmission lines. An arc flash occurred and the employee sustained second-degree burns to the face.

An employee was chipping paint from the structure of a train track. An electric arc flash, caused by a passing train, burned the employee.

The injured employee was moving a light stand and the light clamp was not secure. The light slid down the stand and crushed the employee's left finger, resulting in amputation and hospitalization.

An employee was cutting wood with a portable track saw when the middle, ring, and little fingers on his left hand were amputated.