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An employee was walking past a pallet of televisions when the televisions fell on her head and injured her head, neck, and left shoulder.

An employee was repairing a microwave at a customer's residence when he suffered an electrical shock, which caused burns to both his hands.

An employee was standing on a ladder, mounting a television 10 feet up on a wall. He fell from the ladder to the floor, suffering shoulder and left arm injuries.

An employee was on a mobile ladder installing speaker wire. The ladder shifted and the employee fell about 10 feet, suffering a head laceration, a broken leg, and a broken arm.

An employee had been doing custom wiring installation. The employee had felt ill for three days. After finishing work on the third day, the employee was hospitalized for dehydration and kidney failure possibly due to heat exposure.

An employee was transitioning from a ladder onto a roof when the ladder slipped and they fell approximately 20 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their pelvis and heel.

An employee was tearing down shingles when they fell approximately 18 feet from a roof to the ground, sustaining a broken ankle.

An employee was climbing a ladder to bring material onto a roof. The ladder slid and the employee fell 16 feet to the ground, resulting in a broken knee.

An employee was performing an inspection of a bridge crane while working from a 19-foot scissor lift. The employee was going to use a pendant to move the crane to access a different portion of the crane for visual inspection. The scissor lift guard rails were below the girder of the crane to avoid contact. The tow arm for the crane collectors contacted the guardrail of the scissor lift and caused it to tip over. The employee stayed inside the scissor lift basket as he fell to the floor. The employee sustained fractures to the right arm and hip.

An employee was on a forklift that was elevated approximately 20 feet and was auditing inventory. The forklift malfunctioned and the employee fell down to the surface below, causing them to sustain multiple fractures.

An employee was using a hand truck to load a refrigerator onto a box truck. The refrigerator was set down near the back of the truck and the wheel of the hand truck became stuck in the box truck. When the wheel dislodged, the hand truck and the refrigerator fell on the employee's left arm resulting in injury from the hand to the elbow, including tendon damage.

An employee was closing the liftgate to a box truck when their finger was caught in the clamp/gear as it was folding up. The employee pulled his finger out and the left index fingertip was amputated.

An employee was moving a folding bed when the tip of their thumb got caught in it as it folded, resulting in an amputation below the nail.

An employee was moving an appliance with a hand truck, slipped on water that another appliance had leaked, and fell. The hand truck and appliance fell on him. The employee suffered multiple fingertip amputations as well as back and abdominal injuries.

An employee was manipulating a 3-foot tall industrial warehouse rolling gate to determine why it was squeaking during operation. The gate fell over and struck the employee's left leg, causing him to fall off a loading dock and hit his head on the ground. The employee sustained brain injuries, three cranial fractures, a left leg fracture, and rib fractures.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.