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An employee was troubleshooting the control setup for a variable air volume box above a ceiling. The employee's hand came into contact with an exposed, energized 277-volt wire that had loosened from its terminal on the box's assembly. He was shocked and fell off a ladder. His left hand passed across the ceiling grid and was lacerated. He also suffered an electrical burn to the right hand and was hospitalized.

An employee was assembling a baker type scaffold. He was beginning to transverse down the scaffold, approximately six feet off the ground, when the scaffold tipped over and he fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

An employee was working on an exhaust fan on the roof when he tripped on a wire and fell to the ground. The employee sustained scrapes on his elbow, and a fractured right knee with a torn ACL. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing a scaffold when he slipped and fell 10 to 15 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle.

An employee was walking in a corridor when she tripped and fell on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to her left shoulder and left ribs, and she sustained an injury to her left elbow.

An employee was working to adjust a relief valve adjustment screw and unscrewed the assembly to the valve. Liquid asphalt cement (225 degrees) was released from the valve onto the employee's left arm. They sustained second-degree burns on their arm from just above the elbow to the wrist area.

Two employees were removing trash from a buck hoist landing area. One of them was backing up, helping the other remove a trash can, when he fell off the landing to the concrete about 4 1/2 feet below. He suffered a broken left ankle and was hospitalized.

An employee was using a floor machine and chemical floor stripper to strip the finish from the floor. The employee slipped backward on the wet floor and landed on their back. The employee was hospitalized with chemical burns caused by the floor stripper.

An employee was working on a partially deenergized electrical system. His wire touched an energized wire, resulting in an electrical flash that caused second- and third-degree burns to his neck, forearm, and ear.

An employee was helping a colleague sort rare books on a table in a library vault. A book started to slip out of it's slip-box. He reached out to catch the book, but lost his balance and fell backward onto the floor. The employee sustained a fractured hip.

An employee was carrying a stack of plates to a kitchen when she tripped and fell to the carpeted floor. She suffered a dislocated left hip, a broken femur, and a laceration to the right thumb from a glass plate.

An employee was on a ladder while installing an air barrier on a window when he fell approximately 20 feet off the ladder, through the second-floor window, and onto the ground. The employee was hospitalized with multiple fractures and paralysis of the lower extremities.

An employee jumped over a fence and broke his ankle.

An employee was on a temporary loading dock, receiving pieces of a large tent structure from a telehandler. She was working to straighten a packing blanket when the telehandler lowered it's tines onto her left hand. Her middle finger was degloved from the first knuckle up. The finger required surgical amputation from the first knuckle up.

On May 26, 2025, an employee was lifting an angled steel ramp on dunnage at the front of the tunnel. The ramp fell back down on his right index finger and amputated it.

A solar installer was climbing a ladder from a lower roof to an upper roof when the ladder slipped. The employee and the ladder fell off a 10-12-foot roof. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured ribs and a bruised arm.

While stepping backward from a filing cabinet, an employee tripped on computers stacked in a walkway. The employee fell about 5 to 6 feet back, their head and neck striking a desk and chair. The employee suffered pain and swelling in the neck, a hematoma on the head, and a concussion.

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to unload a pallet from a delivery truck. While he was turning the pallet jack to move it backward, it sped up, spun, and collided with a loaded, stationary pallet on the ground. His right foot was pinned between the loaded stationary pallet and the pallet jack. The foot was lacerated and he was hospitalized.

An employee was walking outside on the sidewalk. She missed a curb, slipped, and fell, sustaining a concussion, facial trauma, and possible lacerations to the face. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was in his car in the parking lot of his workplace (apartment complex) when a resident shot him with a gun. The employee was hospitalized with gunshot injuries to his right ribs and shoulder.

An employee was descending a ladder when they fell 6 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with head and neck injuries.

A scaffold and counterweights were being moved from one side of a roof to the other. The 1-ton rigger counterweights went out of control, swung back, and hit an employee, who suffered a fracture in the upper thigh area.

An employee was switching out the metal doors on a reactor cabinet when a flash occurred. The employee experienced a 13,000-volt electric shock, resulting in head trauma and amputations of both their right and left forearms.

An employee was operating a scissor lift with an external control when the scissor lift fell onto the employee's right leg. His leg was caught in the scissor lift and fractured.