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An employee was driving and delivering packages to a residential area when they experienced heat-illness symptoms. The employee sustained heat exhaustion.

An employee was completing a delivery at a customer location and began to experience cramping and felt ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

An employee completed their shift. After returning home, they became ill and required hospitalization for heat-related illness.

An employee became ill and began cramping after finishing a work day. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from heat-related dehydration.

An employee was connecting two dollies together when his left middle finger was crushed by a dolly, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was unloading a trailer when a box fell and struck the employee in the face. The employee suffered a concussion and was hospitalized.

An employee had been cutting lumber for a shed wall. A load of 16-foot trim pieces fell onto the employee causing vertebrae and ankle fractures.

An employee was unloading 30-foot 2-inch barrels from a pan holding about 20 barrels. The barrels tipped over, striking and breaking both of the employee's lower legs.

An employee was in a sandblasting area, preparing the surface of a plate heat exchanger frame for painting. The frame fell on the employee, who suffered fractures to vertebrae, the neck, pelvis, and rib cage; and punctured lungs.

An employee was installing doors when one of the doors fell on him, fracturing his lower leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was pulling a loaded cargo container from the back of an aircraft to the front. His left boot got caught on a floor lock. The lock punctured the top of his boot and amputated his little toe.

An employee was completing a delivery at a customer location and began to experience cramping and felt ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

An employee was unloading a container when the freight (weighing over 150 lbs.) shifted and caught his right little finger against the container. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

An employee was walking in the walkway when her foot got caught under a pallet and she fell. The employee sustained a hip injury.

An employee was was unloading packages on airplane cargo while standing on metal grating. He fell onto the grating, resulting in a laceration to his left knee.

A flagger was directing traffic flow in a highway work zone. They were standing approximately 1.5 feet behind the shoulder's demarcating line, next to and slightly behind a traffic drum. As they were directing traffic into and out of the driveway of a parking lot, a car attempted to get around a truck and struck the traffic drum, which subsequently struck the employee, who was thrown 15 feet and landed on top of concrete aggregate. The employee suffered pelvic and rib fractures, T10 and L3 vertebra fractures, and internal bleeding.

An employee was troubleshooting a power washer in the field. Because there might have been water in its fuel, he brought it back to the shop and drained about a gallon of fuel from the tank into a plastic container. Some of the fuel spilled onto the floor and ignited. The employee was stomping out the fire when he lost his balance and tripped into a stool, which caused the plastic container to spill more fuel onto the fire. The employee's pants and shirt caught on fire, and he fell, abrading his knee while trying to get through the flames. As well as the knee abrasion, he suffered burns to the left leg and left lower quadrant of the torso. He was hospitalized.

An employee was backing up a tram (towing powered industrial equipment) to connect it to a trash bin. The employee's left forearm/wrist was caught and crushed between the tram and the bin. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee went to lift a carton and tripped on a different carton that was on the floor. She fell on the floor in the backroom and sustained a fractured right hip, and abrasions to her arm and knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was conducting a delivery of beverage products and began having cramps due to dehydration. The employee was hospitalized.