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An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

An employee was walking past a crossover conveyor when a ramp came down and hit them in the back. The employee sustained a broken back vertebra, as well as a concussion, and was hospitalized.

An employee was using a hook tool to pull a pallet onto the lift gate of a tractor trailer. The hook detached from the underside of the pallet, causing the employee to fall backward off the lift gate. The employee landed on the concrete parking lot about 5 feet below, suffering fractures to the skull and two thoracic vertebrae.

A skid loader backed over an employee's leg, breaking it.

An employee was walking on a truss table when he lost his balance and fell approximately 3 feet to the floor. The employee sustained a dislocated and fractured left ankle.

An employee slipped and fell outside, landing on her hip on concrete. The hip was broken and she was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was installing a driveshaft on a customer's vehicle. He was using a floor jack to hold the driveshaft in place to line up the bolts. The driveshaft moved off the jack and crushed his left ring fingertip, resulting in an open fracture of the tuft of the distal phalanx, as well as a partial amputation.

An employee was cutting the top of an empty scrap barrel that previously contained antifreeze. The bottom of the barrel blew out due to pressure that built up and caused his jeans to catch fire, resulting in burns.

An employee was unhooking a trench box from a rigging mechanism on an excavator when their left hand got pinched between the excavator and the trench box. The employee suffered an amputation of the middle finger at the distal joint and a laceration on the ring finger. The excavator's arm had not finished lowering at the time of the incident.

An employee was rigging bundles of round tubing to be lifted from the floor onto a rack using an overhead crane and a spreader beam. As the load was being lifted, it began to lean to one side. The employee reached out to hold up the end of the bundle. The bundle (weighing approximately 1,500 pounds) continued to lean further until it slipped from the chains and fell onto the employee from a height of 5 feet. The bundle knocked him to the ground and landed on him. The employee sustained fractures to his hip and ankle.

An employee was performing maintenance on a tray packer. They put a piece of cardboard down onto the belt of the tray packer and stood on the belt. The belt started, causing the employee to lose balance and fall approximately 2 feet. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

Four employees were wet tapping into 24-inch diameter pipe while installing new air relief valves. When the employees were hand drilling into the 24-inch PVC pipe, the over-pressurized pipe exploded striking the employees working within and around the perimeter of the excavation/trench. Four employees were sent to the hospital. Two employees were treated and released, while two other employees were admitted. One employee suffered a fatal injury.

An employee was exiting the facility's kitchen area after cleaning when they slipped and fell on the wet floor, resulting in a fractured right femur and a sprained chest muscle.

An employee was using a pneumatic impact wrench to tighten bolts on a brake press anvil. The impact wrench hooked up on something, causing the tool to rotate. This spun his left hand with it. Their index finger was pinched between the side handle of the tool and an anvil bolt on the press, resulting in an open fracture. The employee required a medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was working behind a stack of steel I-beams (stacked 2 columns deep and 4 levels high on the floor) while a forklift was pushing the stack. When the forklift took off the second-to-last beam, the last one was pushed over, causing it to fall to the ground and strike the employee. The employee sustained a fracture to the right leg.

A lineman was working from a bucket truck, connecting a new tap onto an existing 72,000-volt line. Their hands came into contact with electricity, and they were burned.

An employee was transitioning from a catwalk to an extension ladder. They grabbed an in-process guardrail which gave way causing them to fall approximately 15 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained fractures to the skull and spine.

An employee was working to change the cooking oil in a 1-gallon countertop fryer. The fryer was held in place by three C-clamps. When two of the clamps were removed, the fryer fell and the hot oil contacted the employee from the waist down. The employee sustained burns to their lower body.

An employee was carrying a laundry basket when they tripped and fell on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured knee.

An employee was priming a cook pump and sustained burns from contact with hot water (140-200 degrees F).

An employee was assisting with rigging a magnet to an overhead crane in order to lift a sheet of steel. The employee's right thumb was between the crane's hook and the chain passing through the hook, and when the crane was raised, the distal end of their thumb was crushed. Part of the employee's right thumb was medically amputated.

An employee was guiding a forklift operator who was placing a 48-inch form jacket (open cylinder) over a core (solid, stationary cylinder). The employee was positioned on the ground adjacent to the core. As the suspended jacket was positioned over the core, a gust of wind caused the jacket to move. The employee reached to steady it and the jacket moved downward pinching his left little finger between the jacket and the core and resulting in a fingertip amputation.

The injured employee was installing all-thread rod while sitting on top of a bridge-style overhead hoist crane beam. He was tightening the all-thread rod to the crane equipment when he reached back with his left arm to adjust his posture. His left hand contacted a cable that powers the crane. The employee sustained an electric shock. The cable was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was using the forks on a forklift to support a 1-inch thick sheet of metal. The forklift was lifting the sheet up two inches from the original process bed when a 1-inch thick metal skeleton (cut out of the sheet of metal) dropped through the original sheet onto the employee's left ring fingertip. A quarter inch of the fingertip was amputated.

An employee was working from a man basket attached to a powered industrial truck. He had been loading manufactured tanks onto tractor trailer flatbeds. While removing the rigging equipment, a rigging strap caught his left ankle against the toe kick of the man basket. The employee sustained a fractured left ankle/tibia/foot.