CBRE

An employee was walking around a commercial site conducting a pre-purchase evaluation. He slipped on ice/snow and fell to the ground, sustaining a knee injury that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee suffered a back injury while building cubicle spaces by picking up cubicle walls at a customer's site and was hospitalized.

An employee sustained a left little finger amputation.

An employee tripped over a door stop while pulling wires, suffering severe abdominal pain likely due to a severe hernia.

An employee fell while removing a wheelbarrow from a building. The employee suffered a broken right ankle and was hospitalized.

Two employees were working to clear land with other employees and prepping a brush pile (20 x 40 x 15 feet) to be burned. They planned to ignite the brush pile by creating a fire-line or trail with an accelerant so that the pile could be lit from a distance. After applying a gasoline-diesel mixture to the pile, one employee used a cigarette lighter to ignite the pile. Two employees suffered multiple first-degree burns to the face, ears, hands, chest, and abdomen.

An employee was hot patching a tire, which involves lighting a flammable liquid on fire to patch the tire. The flammable liquid contacted his arm, and he sustained burns to his arms and face.

An employee was transporting used filter media (containing pyrophoric iron sulfide) from an inlet gas separator in the bed of a truck. The material ignited. While the employee was removing items from the truck bed, a gas can was exposed to the fire and off-gassing vapors ignited. The employee suffered first- and second-degree burns to both arms, the chest, the neck, and the right ear. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was using a cutting torch to heat up bolts that had seized up. The bolts caught on fire in a flash burn, and the employee suffered burns to the arms and elbows.

On August 2, 2025, at 4:59 PM, a contract painter was painting an aircraft using an electrostatic paint gun in the paint booth hangar. He was placing the gun into a container of methyl ethyl ketone to clean when the solvent ignited. The employee was hospitalized with third-degree burns to his arms and legs.

An employee cleared a jam on a conveyor while on a platform ladder. The employee lost balance while descending the ladder and his shirt got caught on a roller on the underside of the conveyor. As a result, his arm and hand were pulled into the roller. The employee was hospitalized with fractures that required surgery.

An employee was walking when he fell to the ground and sustained three fractures to his arm.

An employee was responding to an active leak in an apartment unit at around 18:00 hours. He was working on the water heater and tightened the top element. Pressure and hot water starting to spill out and burned both his hands, his right ankle, and his lower right leg.

An employee was walking around a commercial site conducting a pre-purchase evaluation. He slipped on ice/snow and fell to the ground, sustaining a knee injury that required hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was working at a table when a piece of high-pressure laminate (HPL) swung down and fell on his right hand. A screw from the HPL lacerated the employee's hand.

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.