Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Inc.

An employee was pulling mule tape through a duct using a cable take-up reel on the back of a lineman's truck. The employee's left hand was caught and crushed in the cable reel. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was installing u-verse equipment in a customer's home. When he stood up he felt a pop in his back. He was hospitalized for a pinched nerve.

An employee and two customers were involved in a verbal altercation that escalated into a physical altercation. The employee was shot in the left thigh by the customer and required surgery.

An employee was involved in a dispute with a campground customer when the customer fired a shotgun. The employee's finger was partially amputated and his head was grazed by a bullet. The employee was also shot in the thigh.

On December 28, 2023, an employee was hospitalized after being shot three times in the torso by another employee.

An employee was in the parking lot, leaving the job site, when they were shot in the left wrist.

A U.S. Park Police Officer sustained multiple gunshot wounds during an engagement with an armed assailant who was attempting to flee the scene of a crime. The officer was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was adjusting a cable reel that was loaded onto the forks of a forklift. The reel shifted and caught the employee's left index fingertip against the backrest, amputating it.

An employee was on an extension ladder, about 15-18 feet high, while spraying a wasp nest on a telecommunications pole. He fell to the ground and sustained fractures to his hip, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was moving a pan through the pan building and was struck by the superstructure of a crane, resulting in a fractured hip.

An employee was working from a ladder, pulling a cable line through a wall at a customer's house. He lost his balance and jumped off the ladder, landed on the ground about 7 feet below, and suffered injuries to both ankles including a fracture to at least one. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was pulling inner duct from one handhole to another. The shackle on a winch cable contacted the cable sheave's roller block. The employee released tension on the winch cable and lifted the cable to guide the shackle over the lip of the handhole. As he re-engaged the winch, his left index fingertip became caught between components in the winch's retrieval wheel. The fingertip was amputated between the last knuckle and the nail.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.