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A temporary employee was using a push broom to push recycling waste onto a conveyor belt that makes bales of recycling material. The employee was cleaning between two bales of recycling material when one of the bale wires snapped. The employee's legs became tangled in the wire, causing them to trip and fall. The employee suffered a fractured right leg.

A temporary employee was traveling to a job site. The employee's car broke down at 6:00 p.m. The employee arrived at the site at 8:00 p.m., developed symptoms of heat exhaustion at 8:15, and was hospitalized.

A temporary employee was lifting a transformer from on top of a pallet when his left index finger was caught between the pallet and the floor, resulting in a partial amputation of his left index finger.

A temporary employee was adjusting dunnage under a lifted load of corrugated metal decking when he signaled the forklift operator to let the boom out. During this process, a piece of decking slid off and hit his lower leg. He was hospitalized with a right ankle fracture and a fractured right tibia and fibula.

A temporary employee was unloading a crated kitchen range from a tractor trailer at the warehouse's dock when he mis-stepped, slipped, and lost control of the load. He then fell and was struck on the head by the falling appliance, suffering a mastoid effusion, L1 burst fracture, severed central canal, compression of conus or proximal calida equina leukocytosis, and hyperglycemia.

On October 25, 2023, an employee suffered an insect bite/sting, which caused a swollen arm that required hospitalization.

An employee was walking around a truck at a weigh station when they suffered a spider bite on their left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was in a client's yard when they were bitten by a bug. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.

An employee was walking through the chicken barn checking the chickens. They were bitten by a spider on the left shoulder and experienced a reaction to the spider bite.

An employee was on break when they lifted a vine and sustained a snake bite on their left ring finger.

A temporary employee fell from an A-frame ladder to the floor about 5 to 6 feet below. He suffered fractures to his left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

A temporary employee was operating an electric pallet jack at a loading dock. While maneuvering the pallet jack into a trailer, the equipment loaded onto the pallet jack began shifting to the left. The employee's left foot was caught between a yellow guardrail and the side platform of the pallet jack, and his left ankle was crushed and fractured.

A temporary employee was cleaning a room and compressing the contents of a garbage bin using her right foot. As she pulled her leg out of the bin, she lost balance and fell to the ground, landing on her left hip. The employee sustained a fracture to her left hip and was hospitalized.

An employee was driving an electric pallet jack when it struck a rack. The employee was hospitalized with a crushed and lacerated right ankle.

A temporary employee was filling a sweeper with gas at a construction site. He was shocked by the jumper cables, which caused him to move his right hand into the sweeper's rotating fan blades. His middle fingertip was amputated.

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.