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An employee was cleaning on top of the picker when he closed the door on his finger. The middle ring fingertip was removed.

An employee was working from a scissor lift while removing a section of form work from the ceiling. Meanwhile, another section of form work came down and fractured his left leg.

An employee was unloading food items from a truck using a hand truck. When the ramp broke, the employee slipped and fell to the ground injuring their chin and breaking the right ankle.

An employee fell 12 feet while climbing a ladder to gain access to a scaffold work platform. The employee was hospitalized due to multiple fractures.

An employee smashed his finger at a job site while helping to hook up a job trailer to a pickup.

On December 31, 2015, an employee slipped and fell on ice after making a delivery at a business and shattered his right ankle in three places.

An employee using a grease gun was injured when the hose of the gun ruptured and shot grease into his skin.

An employee was removing snow from the roof of one story house and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a skull fracture and injured his spleen and shoulder.

An employee lacerated the tip of the left middle finger while using a fillet cutter.

An employee had just finished installing the last of the drip edge flashing on the roof of a two-story 6:12 pitched new house. He unhooked his lanyard from the anchor point in order to go down the ladder. He slipped and fell 20 feet onto the sand resulting in a lower back injury and broken ribs.

An employee slipped on ice and snow in the parking lot and fell, fracturing the left hip.

An employee was severely injured and hospitalized after she fell from the top of a load of industrial fans inside the back of a semi-trailer. The fan fell onto the employee. The employee suffered a T12-L2 back injury requiring a two-level fusion.

An employee fell while walking on the ice and broke their pelvis and femur.

On December 31, 2015, an employee working as a produce clerk slipped on a piece of fruit and fell to the ground, resulting in a hospitalization for a compound fracture to the right knee.

An employee fell from a ladder and injured their back.

An employee was spackling drywall on a rolling scaffold. The scaffold rolled into a hole that was covered by carpet and the employee fell approximately six feet breaking his arm and wrist.

An employee was operating a fork truck and emptying a trash container. His hand was smashed and part of a finger was amputated.

An employee was working the foot popper machine on the kill floor and amputated a fingertip on the left hand.

An employee was exiting an airplane, slipped on ice, and fell resulting in a broken ankle that required hospitalization.

Four Treco, Inc. employees were cleaning tank bottoms at a facility. During the course of bolting a man way cover onto the tank opening with hand tools, an unknown ignition source caused two of the tanks to ignite. One employee suffered second and third degree burns to his face.

An employee was injected with a poultry vaccine that caused a blockage of blood flow to his finger.

Four employees were riding on an ATV when the ATV rolled over. One of the employee's right leg was pinned under the ATV and severely lacerated. The employee was hospitalized.

On or about December 30, 2015, an employee's finger was caught between the die and the die bed as the employee was rotating the die in a brake press. The right middle finger was pinched, removing the flesh part of the finger.

An employee was pulling a V-belt. The motor engaged and his right ring and pinky fingers were amputated.

An employee was cutting hoses with a utility knife. The knife slipped and cut his finger resulting in hospitalization.