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An employee was walking down a staircase when their heel caught on a stair and they fell, resulting in hospitalization for a punctured lung and broken ribs.

An employee was standing on the outside edge of a hopper barge while watching a skid steer push ore for an excavator (with a clamshell bucket) to unload. The excavator was on a work barge. The bucket of the excavator struck the employee and caused a near-amputation of their right arm and fractures of the ulna and radius of the left arm. The right arm required surgery.

An employee was working to offload a trailer when the dock plate fell and amputated his big toe.

On June 26, 2025, an employee was delivering mail on foot when he began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.

The injured employee was performing roofing work with a crew. A mop was being used to apply tar to the roof. Hot tar splashed onto the injured employee's left hand. The back of their hand was burned.

An employee was getting out of the back of a mail truck and misstepped or stepped on uneven pavement and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a back fracture.

An employee was using a Johnson bar to free up an electric pallet jack that was stuck. While prying, the Johnson bar released from his hand and struck his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured.

An employee was conducting jail cell window bar taps. They were closing one cell and opening the adjacent cell at the same time and sustained an electrical shock from an energized metal door.

On December 7, 2024, a forklift ran into a rack, which then struck an employee. The employee suffered a fractured right foot and was hospitalized.

An employee was on a ladder working to change a sign. They lost balance and fell approximately 6 feet to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a hip injury.

On July 1, 2024, an employee was carrying a mail tub to a different location when she stepped onto a package that was on the ground, causing her to slip and fall to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured hip that required hospitalization.

At about 3:00 p.m. on February 3, 2023, an employee was spraying foam insulation in a bonus room when he fell through a 3-foot by 6-foot floor hole. He landed on the concrete garage floor 11 feet below and sustained a rib fracture, a shoulder injury, a punctured lung, and a scalp contusion.

An employee was stepping out of a company car and slipped and fell to the street, resulting in fractures to both ankles.

An employee was using a table saw for cedar woodworking and amputated two fingers.

An employee was delivering mail when they developed frostbite on both hands; they were hospitalized.

An employee was on a tray line serving food when he slipped, fell, and hit his head on the floor. The employee sustained an open wound to the head and had a seizure. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee had a heart attack after fighting a controlled forest fire.

An employee was helping lower a manlift. The manlift's arm struck his lower left leg as it came down, causing contusions.

An employee was sitting in a chair caring for a patient. The employee stood up and then fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured right knee.

An employee was delivering mail when they stepped off a front porch, heard a pop in their knee, and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken femur.

An employee was driving a delivery truck and walking while performing a city delivery route when they began to experience heat-related dehydration.

An employee was dumping mail from an all-purpose container onto a culling belt. The employee was reaching with their right hand to remove a package stuck in the container while their left hand was on the bar that holds the container in place when it's turned upright to dump the contents. The container shifted and crushed the employee's left middle finger between the bar and metal frame of the container, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was doing preventive maintenance on a cook pot. He had greased the motor shaft and was about to clean off the fitting when a set screw pinched his right index finger between the shaft and the grease fitting. He suffered a laceration and an open fracture to the fingertip.

An employee was on a lift measuring a door and fell 61 inches to the ground. The employee sustained a head injury.

An employee was operating a loom when the mechanical chain drive seized. The employee tried loosening bolts to the mechanism to free the chain drive, but that did not work. The employee then tried to manually manipulate the chain drive mechanism resulting in amputation of the right thumb tip.