The Jackson Laboratory

An employee was in the break room when she fell, striking her head on a metal rack as she fell to the floor. She was hospitalized with a laceration over the left eye and a fractured cervical vertebra.

An employee was walking back to their desk, tripped over an ergonomic mat on the floor and fell striking their right hip on the back of a desk. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.

An employee was loading supplies into a truck and closing the tailgate when his right ring finger was caught in the tailgate, amputating his fingertip.

An employee was handling mice and suffered an allergic reaction upon indirect contact with the mice.

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee knelt on their left knee to draw blood from the hand of a patient. She suffered a back injury involving a bulging disk and was hospitalized.

An employee ate an uncooked, company-provided chicken meal during lunch, developed a food-borne illness, and was hospitalized.

On April 3, 2025, an employee was pushing a heavy cart when the cart passed over a hole in the concrete floor and tipped over. The employee sustained hip fractures from the cart.

An employee was approaching a client's lockbox to pick up specimens. He tripped over the curb and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken left hip that required surgery.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.