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An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

An employee was helping to set up a mulch blowing truck when they were struck by an oncoming vehicle. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured knee, a concussion, and a head laceration; they also received stitches on their arm.

An employee was rappelling down a tree. When he was most of the way down, he fell on the ground and suffered a broken pelvis.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

An employee was rinsing a food processing machine at a facility and went to stabilize himself. His left hand contacted the surface of the machine and a guard inadvertently closed, crushing the tip of his ring finger and resulting in an amputation and fracture.

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood when the saw cut his thumb, index, and middle fingers. His index finger was amputated and he was hospitalized.

An employee was mowing a residential lawn at a client's house. The mower slid on the land and tipped over onto him. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra in the neck and partial paralysis.

A temporary employee was rigging secondary steel when the steel joist fell to the ground and struck his lower left leg, resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.

An employee was in a coned-off work area on a street, performing a granular turf application. While he was standing between his spreader machine and a truck, loading the spreader with bags of fertilizer, a car drove by and struck the spreader. The employee was pinned between the spreader and the truck and suffered bruises, scratches, and cuts to his legs (particularly the left knee), arms (particularly the right elbow), and left shoulder. He was hospitalized.

An employee was performing janitorial duties on the 15th floor of a building that was under construction. She began having trouble breathing. The employee was hospitalized with lung irritation caused by dust.

A wood chipper was hitched to the back of a semi truck. An employee walked from the truck's passenger side to the back of the chipper to retrieve brush debris. A 60-foot tall tree was felled nearby (on the driver's side of the truck), and the wind caught it and caused it to twist while falling. It struck the employee on the back and head, breaking six of the employee's ribs on the right side.

An employee was riding on the side of an all-terrain forklift when they fell into the space between the gas tank and the right rear tire. The employee was run over by the the right rear tire, resulting in fractures to their neck, pelvis, and right leg.

An employee was working to assess the operation of a high-pressure water nozzle. The water system was activated and the employee was cut by high pressure water on his left hand where the palm meets the wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was operating the compaction levers on a truck when a motor vehicle crashed into the back of the stopped truck. The employee sustained fractured ribs and contusions.

An employee was working from an extension ladder, installing a security camera. The ladder fell out from under the employee, who fell to the ground 12 feet below and broke his right femur.

A temporary employee was helping set up a stage for a concert. The employee was run over by a mobile cart and sustained a toe amputation. The employee was hospitalized.

On October 17, 2025, an employee was descending a fixed two-step stool when she slipped, landed on her left leg, and suffered a broken femur. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was performing maintenance on a hopper. The employee's hand was caught in a cylinder pivot point area when the pneumatic cylinder released trapped air. The cylinder crushed the employee's left little finger, causing the partial amputation of the fingertip.

An employee fell 5 feet from a retaining wall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with three fractures.

An employee was moving branches and other material when they were struck in the leg by the track of a skid-steer loader, resulting in an ankle and lower leg injury.

An employee slipped while climbing a ladder on a skidder, fell to the ground, and suffered a tibia/fibula fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee's left bicep was lacerated by high-pressure water during water blasting operations. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was using a stand-on mower to mow a slope. The mower started to slip down the slope, struck a small boulder, and rolled over. The employee was ejected and his side struck another boulder. He suffered five broken ribs and an air pocket in the chest.

An employee's hand was caught in a conveyor belt as they worked to clear a jam in a piece of equipment. The employee suffered a dislocation to the right elbow, as well as a broken ulna near the elbow, and was hospitalized.