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An excavator bucket was being removed. An employee was pulling a snap ring to remove a pin and lost his grip. The high-tension snap ring recoiled and his left middle fingertip was amputated by the snap ring.

An employee was patching a roof leak when they fell from the roof to the ground and sustained a brain bleed.

An employee was working at the store when an irate customer from the drive thru came inside to yell and spit at the staff. When the customer went outside again, she pulled out a gun and shot an employee in the chest. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was working on disassembling and moving a trailer house from a gas well pad. The employee was on the roof of the structure installing flashing. The employee fell to the ground below, sustaining a skull fracture and brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was working on a truck when the truck's door fell on his hand, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger.

An employee was pulling a data cable through a ceiling. He fell through the ceiling, landing at ground level. He suffered a laceration to the forehead, a dislocated left little finger, a broken left ring finger, and a laceration to the liver.

An employee fell while exiting a shuttle van that he had been driving. He was hospitalized with a fractured left ankle and required surgery.

An employee was taking a tour of the property. They were walking up the steps to an apartment when the staircase broke. The employee fell, sustaining a knee injury and a fractured right ankle.

An employee was servicing an air conditioning unit. While he was working to connect the manifold gauges to the port, a rattlesnake bit him on his right hand.

On September 16, 2025, an employee was installing and adjusting spotlights on a performance stage that was under construction. While crossing the stage to speak with other contractors, the employee encountered a section of the stage where the elevation changed to a lower level. As the employee stepped down 14 inches to the lower level, his knee locked up and he fell to the stage. He subsequently rolled off the stage and fell approximately 2 to 3 feet to the floor, resulting in a fractured tibial plateau in his right leg.

An employee slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a broken hip and femur that required hospitalization.

The injured employee had been working on the computer at the front desk in the showroom. An argument occurred with another employee and additional people got involved. Gunshots were fired. The employee was shot in the hip and was hospitalized.

An employee was walking in a parking lot when they fell to the asphalt, resulting in fractures to their wrist, arm, and pelvis.

An employee was repairing a garage door. While the door was being lowered, his finger was caught in one of the gaps in the door. The fingertip was amputated at the middle of the nail.

An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.

On September 4, 2025, an employee was standing on a 4-foot ladder when he fell backward to the dirt ground. He suffered a compression fracture to his L1 vertebra.

An employee was changing a fan belt when his little fingertip was amputated.

An employee was descending a set of stairs when he stumbled on the last step and fell onto his right side. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip and required surgery.

An employee was walking between service bays. He came into contact with a trailer hitch, which was sticking out of the back of a lawn mower, and fell to the concrete floor. He landed on his right side and suffered a broken hip.

An employee was taking a scissor lift off a flatbed trailer. While using the remote operator controls and walking alongside the lift, the wheel of the lift turned in the wrong direction, causing it to strike the employee and roll over his left ankle. The employee was hospitalized with two broken bones in his ankle.

An employee was working on the lift gate of a truck when their left ring fingertip got caught in a pinch point, resulting in amputation.

An employee was preparing to remove leaf spring bushings on the front drive axle of a tandem axle tractor. After raising the axle with a hydraulic jack, he placed two jack stands under the rear frame rails of the tractor and placed additional jack stands under the front drive axle. He then repositioned himself at the rear of the tractor where he reached for the release valve of the jack to begin lowering the axle (and frame) onto the jack stands. He was in a kneeling position while using his right hand to operate the release valve. His left hand was caught between the lowering frame rail and a jack stand. His left ring and middle fingertips were crushed, resulting in amputations.

An employee was working on an excavator's tracks. He was swinging a sledgehammer to finish pushing a metal tractor pin into the track links. A hammer-blow caused a piece of the pin to fly off, ricochet, and embed itself in his buttock. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was picking up crane pads to put onto their trailer. Their finger got pinched between pads, resulting in an amputation involving the loss of skin.

An employee fell while getting into a company vehicle. He sustained scrapes to the head, lower back, right arm and right leg. He was hospitalized with a headache and blurred vison.