BLUE BIRD CORPORATION

The injured employee was installing fan belts and alternators. Another employee came into the work area with a torque gun and began poking the injured employee with the tip of the torque gun and then activated the tool. The spinning tip of the torque gun caught the injured employee's left glove and amputated her middle finger.

An employee was moving a manlift away from a truck when it struck a power line. The employee sustained electric shock.

An employee was operating a lathe machine to sand a bolt. The emery paper became caught on the bolt, pulling his right hand into the bolt and twisting his thumb. His right thumb was surgically amputated.

An employee was cutting conduit with a portable electric saw. The tool bounced and the blade reached the employee's left hand, amputating part of the last joint on the index finger.

An employee was working in a scissor lift, replacing the ground wire in an electrical box. The employee came into contact with the live wire and an arc flash shocked the employee with 480 volts, causing first- and second-degree burns to the employee's face and arms.

An employee was power washing a metal tank from an elevated platform. They fell through a gap between the platform and the tank. The employee landed on the ground and sustained fractures to their ankles and feet.

An employee was installing a metal roof when he stepped on a skylight. The employee fell through the skylight to the ground, resulting in head and shoulder fractures.

An employee was replacing an HVAC unit in a residential home. While he was in the attic space above the garage, the wood he was walking on broke, causing the employee to fall through the sheetrock to the concrete floor below. The employee bumped his head and sustained a shoulder injury as well as a broken ankle.

An employee was putting a tarp on a water tank while standing on a trailer. She lost her footing and fell through the trailer bed, striking the corner of the trailer bed. The employee sustained internal bleeding.

An employee was repairing a sub-floor in a residential house that had water and fire damage. The employee fell through the sub-floor and landed in the basement, resulting in spinal fractures that required hospitalization.

An employee was walking on a dock plate to open the door for the next trailer. He tripped on a cargo strap that was laying on the dock and fell. The employee sustained a fractured right hip, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

On September 18, 2025, an employee was rolling a stack of two steel racks containing automobile bumpers when the top rack dropped, pinching their right little finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation.

An employee spent about 4 1/2 hours working outdoors, servicing a boom lift on a truck. He was hospitalized with heat stress.

An employee was exiting an ambulance when his foot slipped, causing him to hit either the portable aluminum step or the concrete floor. He suffered a broken left elbow.

Two employees were sliding a 200-pound steel mounting plate off a worktable onto the forks of a forklift. They slid the plate until it was half on the table and half on the forklift, and were making an adjustment to get the plate fully on the forklift when the plate pinched one employee's left ring finger. He suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

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.