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An employee was working at mid-span between two telephone poles (that is, on a ladder set between the poles and designed to fit between them). The ladder slipped and the employee fell to the ground about 12 feet below, landing on his feet and shattering both heels.

An employee was walking in an office, lost balance, and fell resulting in a hip injury.

An employee had been pulling cable and was hospitalized for heat related illness.

An employee had been using a bucket truck to repair a telecommunications cable at a customer's residence. The employee completed the job and got down into the truck bed from the bucket itself, and was then stepping off the platform at the rear of the truck when he missed a step, lost balance and fell from the back of the truck to the ground approximately 4-5 ft below. The employee landed on his tool belt and the right side of his lower back. He was hospitalized with four fractured vertebrae in the lower back.

An employee was running wire while standing on a stepladder. The employee slipped and fell 4 feet to the ground, suffering a broken femur.

An employee was walking to deliver cylinders when his right knee gave out. He sustained a torn quadricep on the right knee.

An employee was walking up a jetway after exiting an aircraft when they felt a sharp pain in their lower back and they collapsed to the floor. The employee sustained a herniated disc that was compressing on the sciatic nerve.

While climbing a hill, an employee collapsed and suffered a heart attack.

An employee had a heart attack during a 2-mile walking event and was hospitalized.

An employee stepped off the back of his truck. He then took a few steps and his knee gave out and hyper-extended, resulting in a torn tendon in his right leg.

An employee was descending a ladder that was on a strand when the ladder shifted, causing the employee to jump off and fall about 5.5 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right ankle.

An employee was cutting boxes using a box cutting tool and lacerated an artery in their wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was removing 2,500-foot reels of 1 cable-in-conduit (CIC) weighing ~1,022 lbs. from the back of an enclosed delivery truck. The employee was manually rolling a reel off the truck when another reel shifted and rolled forward, crushing his right hand between the two reels. The employee's right ring finger was partially amputated without loss of bone.

An employee was on an extension ladder working to replace a service line to a customer's home. The existing service line broke, causing him to fall off the ladder. He was hospitalized with a dislocated elbow and fractures in his left wrist requiring surgery.

An employee stepped on a traffic cone while walking to a truck. The employee slipped and fell, suffered a fractured and possibly dislocated ankle, and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.