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An employee was halfway up a step ladder reaching for a box when she lost balance and fell backward striking her head on the ground. The employee suffered a fractured skull and was hospitalized.

An employee tripped and fell, hitting her head on the floor. She was hospitalized.

An employee slipped on a toy that had wheels and fell on her right knee fracturing it.

On April 1, 2017, an employee caught her ankle on a push cart and fell, suffering knee and head trauma. She required surgery and hospitalization.

An employee went out to the parking lot to retrieve a shopping cart when she was startled by running children and fell to the ground, fracturing her left femur and left hip. She had surgery.

An employee was fixing ceiling tiles while working from a ladder when they fell to the floor and sustained a hip fracture.

An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.

An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.

An employee was coming down a portable ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a right forearm fracture.

An employee was unloading a trailer on the receiving dock using a stand up powered industrial vehicle (PIV). A yard truck pulled the trailer away from the dock and the PIV fell backward out of the trailer. The employee struck their back on the headache rack of the PIV and was caught between it and the dock plate. The employee was hospitalized with a blunt force injury.

An employee was punching eyelets in a hat when their finger was caught in the machine and crushed.

An employee fell from a six-foot ladder to the floor and was hospitalized for fractured lumbar vertebrae.

An employee had been hanging a jacket on a wall peg while standing on a ladder. The employee missed a step while decending the ladder and fell to the ground sustaining a fractured elbow.

An employee was walking over to assist a customer with access to a fitting room when she fell and sustained a right leg fracture.

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.