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An employee was performing service on a customer's attic. They stepped off a walk board to retrieve a tool and misstepped onto the rafters, causing them to fall approximately 10 to 12 feet. The employee sustained a back injury.

An employee was walking around the exterior of a customer location when they slipped on ice and fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured tibia and fibula.

An employee was checking bait stations when they slipped on ice and fell to the ground. The employee suffered an arm fracture and dislocation.

An employee was walking toward a house to alert the customer that he had arrived. The walkway was covered with snow and ice, and the employee slipped on the walkway landing awkwardly on his equipment. The fall resulted in four fractured ribs that impaired the function of his right lung.

An employee was removing spiderwebs at a residence. A dog from next door jumped on the employee, biting the employee multiple times.

An employee jumped up on the concrete floor to retrieve an empty 5-gallon bucket from on top of a storage cabinet. When he landed, his right femur fractured.

An employee was working outside underneath a truck. They sustained a torn rotator cuff while coming out from underneath the truck.

An employee's T12 vertebrae was fractured after she jumped onto a hospital bed to sleep.

The injured employee was trimming a bush with a hedge trimmer. He reached over with his left hand to remove a branch. The blades of the trimmer partially amputated his left index finger.

An employee was performing pest control services at a residential home when he tripped and fell on the front porch steps. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured wrist, two fractured ribs, and a subdural hematoma.

An employee was on a 32-foot fiberglass ladder positioned on a porch roof, using a caulk gun to seal the fascia board around the gable of a house. He was about 16 feet up the ladder, which was not fully extended. The base of the ladder slid away from the house. The employee fell onto the porch roof, then to the ground below, a distance of about 10 feet. He suffered broken ribs, lacerations and facial abrasions, and a potential facial fracture.

An employee was going door-to-door selling pest control services during 80+ degree weather. The employee sustained heat stroke and collapsed.

An employee was performing service on a customer's attic. They stepped off a walk board to retrieve a tool and misstepped onto the rafters, causing them to fall approximately 10 to 12 feet. The employee sustained a back injury.

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

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.