United States Department of Agriculture

An employee was inspecting behind a cooker when he tripped on a gas line. He fell, suffering a broken hip.

An employee began to feel dizzy, lightheaded, was short of breath, and collapsed due to carbon monoxide exposure. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was operating a skid steer, pushing debris away from the control line in preparation for a controlled burn. A log sprung loose and a fragment of wood (1 foot in diameter and 2-3 feet long) pierced the polycarbonate glass door at the front of the skid steer cabin. The wood struck the employee's upper right thigh, resulting in a laceration to the thigh and a fractured pelvis.

An employee was inspecting a cross country ski trail when their right ski tip was caught on a sapling tree. The employee sustained a torn medial collateral ligament and a sprained anterior cruciate ligament.

On 7/19/2021, an employee had been sampling vegetation when they began to experience symptoms of heat stress and dehydration afterwards, resulting in hospitalization.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

An employee was rigging I-beams. An I-beam slid off the stack of I-beams and fractured the employee's leg.

An employee was walking in a corridor when she tripped and fell on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to her left shoulder and left ribs, and she sustained an injury to her left elbow.

An employee was inspecting behind a cooker when he tripped on a gas line. He fell, suffering a broken hip.

On February 5, 2025, at around 12:00 PM, an employee was rolling a motor (60 lbs.) up into a bucket for disposal when the motor rolled over his left index fingertip. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was driving an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) through a wheat stubble field when the ATV struck a hidden washout that was about 1.5 to 2 feet deep. The employee went over the handlebars, and the ATV ran over his right leg, breaking it.

An employee was positioned at the withdrawal point of a nurse tank containing anhydrous ammonia. The employee was positioning a hand wrench at the top of the nurse tank when the wrench slipped and bumped the valve release. The anhydrous ammonia vapor released from the tank, resulting in an inhalation injury.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.