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An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

An employee was walking through the retail store when they tripped over a display rack and fell. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their left shoulder, left elbow, and left wrist.

An employee was checking credentials for vehicles entering an area. While approaching a vehicle that had failed to stop as instructed, the employee lost his balance and fell backward, landing on his back. The car struck him, and he suffered a tailbone fracture and a kidney injury.

An employee fell from a loading dock to the ground 2-3 feet below. She suffered a compound fracture of the left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was removing rigging from a post-tensioning strand when it suddenly whipped and unwound. The employee suffered an avulsion to the right thumb.

An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was entering a doorway on the seventeenth floor of an enclosed building when the door closed on his left index finger, crushing it. The fingertip was amputated.

A maintenance employee fell from a ladder while changing a light bulb. The employee landed on a dining room floor and suffered fractured vertebrae.

An employee was cleaning a steam kettle; he had the floor grate lifted to access the drain area. He tripped on the open floor grate, striking his knee against the steam kettle's drain pipe and falling onto multiple pieces of kitchen equipment. He landed on the floor, where he struck his head. He was hospitalized with lacerations to his ear, which required surgery to repair.

An employee was outside a freight elevator, reaching in, when the elevator moved and crushed her right hand. She suffered a broken arm and wrist and was hospitalized, requiring muscle surgery.

An employee was kneeling on the ground while painting in a hotel area. He felt a prick, then overnight had a lot of pain, irritation, and some swelling. The employee was hospitalized with an infection in his knee.

An employee was exiting a train. The employee's foot was caught, and the employee fell, suffering a broken left arm.

An employee was on a ladder hanging drywall. He fell from the ladder's fourth rung, striking the ladder itself as well as the carpeted floor. He suffered five or six broken ribs, a bruised lung, and pain in the left wrist, neck, and back. He was hospitalized.

A restroom stall door swung open, bounced back at the employee, and the coat hook on the door impaled his left eye. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was cleaning the pretzel oven when the edge of a rack in the oven contacted their right thumb, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was walking toward the dish area when they tripped over a fan cord and fell on the ground. The employee sustained a hip injury.

An employee was helping to flip and stack tables in a dining room so the floors could be waxed. They began experiencing back and knee pain a few hours later, resulting in hospitalization for musculoskeletal strain affecting the lower back and right knee.

On September 29, 2025, an employee was removing a pan of pasta from the stove when the pan tipped over. Hot water contacted her legs and feet, resulting in burns to both feet that required hospitalization.

A contractor was performing maintenance on a fryer when it tipped over, causing hot oil to splash onto the injured employee, who was nearby. The injured employee suffered burns that required hospitalization.

An employee walked into the back office and an altercation occurred with another employee. The injured employee was shot by a firearm, once in their side and twice in their arms. The employee's left leg was amputated below the knee and their left arm was fractured.

An employee was working with a tilt skillet in the kitchen when she fell and her right arm went into a pot of boiling water. The employee sustained burns.

An employee was shocked while turning on a circuit breaker for a dishwasher that needed repair. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was walking through a passageway sideways when the edge of her shoe got caught and she fell onto her right hip, resulting in a broken femoral head.