Customs and Border Protection Academy

Employee dislocated a knee during a weapons training exercise.

On March 19, 2022, an employee was working a 12-hour shift at an emergency room when, after 8 hours, she began to experience spasms in her right leg, down the thigh and to knee, and shortly after reported feeling her knee pop. The employee finished her shift. The next morning, the employee's knee was swollen and could not bend or bear weight. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was working out in an onsite gym as part of his approved work activities. He strained his back while performing back extensions and was hospitalized.

After participating in a physical training exercise, an employee began to lose feeling in his lower extremities. He was hospitalized, having suffered bulging disks, an annular tear, and a muscle injury.

A wildland firefighter was physically training for the job when he started feeling aches in the shoulder area. Later that evening he felt extreme fatigue, and body aches in the shoulder area and legs. The following morning, the employee was hospitalized with a muscular injury.

An employee was assisting with patients in the emergency department. The employee became faint, weak, and lethargic in part due to exhaustion, then began having seizures. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

An employee was on a four-step work stand while sanding an area of an aircraft. He was climbing down the work stand when he tripped over an air hose and fell to the level below, resulting in a fractured femur.

An employee was lifting a manhole cover when it fell on his right foot, resulting in the amputation of his big toe and the adjacent toe.

A Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee was assisting a fire crew with clearing a forest trail. The employee was struck in the left leg by a fire-rated chainsaw. The chainsaw struck the employee underneath their chaps and above their boot. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee handed a fuel hose to another employee at a gas station pump and then turned around, tripped over the hose, and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

An employee was conducting fire suppression operations on a wildfire. He pulled a hose from the engine. He then charged the hose and began to put on his gloves. A flareup occurred and the employee sustained burns to his face and hands.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.