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An employee was operating an ironworker (steel punching/shearing) machine. A piece of the tooling broke off and struck the employee's neck; a fragment was lodged in his neck. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

A service crew was pulling a pump and motor from a well. After breaking a joint of pipe loose from another joint, an employee grabbed the chain tongs to prevent the pipe from spinning in the well, so the crew could continue taking it apart. The bolt that attaches the chain to the handle of the chain tongs broke, causing the chain to swing around and strike the employee's lower right leg. The chain severely punctured his leg and fractured his tibia.

An employee was using a handheld grinder to cut a bolt. The grinding wheel broke apart and a fragment struck the employee s right hand, causing a laceration to the palm near the little finger.

An employee was operating a brake press when the top die broke, causing the bottom die to roll out and onto the employee's legs. Both of the employee's legs were crushed below the knee, and both legs were partially amputated. The employee's left leg was also fractured above the knee.

A pressurized aircraft nose landing gear strut assembly was being disassembled. The gland nut dislodged under pressure and made contact with an employee's left hand, breaking it.

An employee was moving metal out of a cart. He had removed one piece and was working to move another when the metal shifted. His right ring finger was crushed between the two pieces, and he suffered a partial amputation to the finger pad at the tip.

An employee was at the loading dock working to manually move an oversized load off of a pallet that was sitting on another pallet. The oversized load (a gas cylinder cradle) tipped over and crushed the employee's right leg against the ground. The employee sustained a fracture to their ankle/leg requiring surgery.

An employee was cutting the top of an empty scrap barrel that previously contained antifreeze. The bottom of the barrel blew out due to pressure that built up and caused his jeans to catch fire, resulting in burns.

An employee was moving extra wire out of a cleaning tank by using the tank's jogging function. Two of the employee's right-hand fingers were caught on the last strand going around the acid roll, and the employee suffered an amputation to the right little fingertip.

An employee was acting as a spotter for a forklift. The forklift was traveling in the parking lot with a hoisted bundle of angle iron when a slight slope in the asphalt caused the load to shift and tighten the eye of the choker (rigging). The rigging strap's hoisting eye failed and the load fell to the ground, landing on the employee's left foot and fracturing it.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.