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An employee was cutting cabinet trim using a table saw when four fingers on his left hand were severed, resulting in hospitalization and amputation.

An employee was delivering materials. He was doing his pre-delivery inspection on the roof of the jobsite (a warehouse) when he fell through a plexiglass skylight. He landed on his feet on the concrete floor 14 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to his spine, left ulnar/radius, and right heel. The employee required surgery.

An employee was removing packaging from a roll of printing substrate. The blade of their utility knife got stuck. The employee used both hands to free the knife and the blade partially amputated their left little fingertip.

A concrete batch plant operator was assisting with clearing spoil piles using a skid steer. The skid steer backed into a stationary screen plant. The employee's left little finger was crushed between the controls of the skid steer and the screen plant, resulting in a fracture and laceration. The employee's finger was surgically amputated.

An employee was standing on an extension ladder, using a torquing tool to remove bolts that secured blades to a rotor. When the torquing tool activated, its reaction arm came around and pinched the employee's right middle finger against a lifting eye. His fingertip was amputated.

An employee tripped over a chair in the break room and fell, resulting in lower back pain. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra.

An employee experienced sharp pain in his lower torso area while loading baggage into the front cargo pit of an aircraft. The employee sustained a hernia.

An employee was walking when he tripped on a small mound of dirt, fell, and sustained a fractured leg.

An employee was cutting a PVC pipe when the saw slipped, amputating his left ring fingertip. The fingertip was reattached.

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

An employee was changing AC filters while on a ladder. The employee stepped up to the second-to-last rung when they slipped and fell about 5 feet to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their scapula and ribs, a collapsed lung, and a back injury.

An employee was working to realign the two top sections of a set of collapsible rollers (trailer-on-flatcar rollers). The rollers suddenly fell into place and pinched her left index fingertip against the lower sections. She suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

An employee was holding a barn door open while putting a tool away. The door shut on the employee's right hand, causing a partial amputation to the little finger.

A driver slipped and fell to the ground while exiting his truck. He sustained a lacerated spleen.

An employee was closing a roll-up trailer door when he lost his footing and the door closed on his right leg. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right leg.

A maintenance employee was removing an inspection plate from an industrial cooker. Hot liquid spilled onto him and burned his hands, arms, and torso area. He was hospitalized.

An employee was working to build an electrical substation. He was cleaning out the inside of a fixed section of a PVC pipe on the end that was furthest from an excavator. The excavator was outside of the trench and more than 25 feet away when it moved a pipe, pinching the employee's right arm between the two pipes. The employee's forearm was fractured.

An employee was inspecting a direct-current cable that was going to be pulled with the help of a vehicle. The cable was made from two cables coupled together that each measured 2 inches in diameter. The cable came free of its pulley and struck the employee's left ankle, resulting in a fractured ankle and injured thumb.

An employee was performing rebar fabrication using a bending machine. The employee's glove became caught in the area where the rebar bend overlaps onto itself. The subsequent bending/cutting caused the two overlapping portions to squeeze together and amputate approximately 1/4" of his left index fingertip.

An iron worker was assisting with hooking up a pickup truck to a trailer. The spring-loaded clasp that covers the hitch connection pinched his left ring fingertip, resulting in an amputation of the distal phalanx involving the tuft.

An employee was hydro testing and pressurizing a pipe when it blew. The lid struck the employee, causing a gash to his elbow and injury to his abdominal area that required surgery.

An employee was moving trucks in the yard. He was working between trucks when a back door swung open and caught their right hand against the frame of another truck. The employee sustained a crushing injury to a finger.

An employee exited the ambulance van she had been driving and went to lower the hydraulic wheelchair ramp/lift on the side of the vehicle. The lift would not lower into position. She went around to enter the van to continue troubleshooting the lift when the van began to roll backward as the employee was partially out of the driver s side door. She reached in to stop the vehicle but the transmission shifted into reverse. The van turned and backed across a residential street, dragging the employee approximately 15 feet until it went up on a curb and the employee s left leg was pulled under the left front tire. She was hospitalized with fractures to her right wrist, right hand, and left fibula.