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An employee was cutting pig's feet on a vertical band saw with a boning blade. The employee's hand was pushing the pig's feet into the blade when it amputated the employee's right thumb.

An employee was operating a grader and then stopped to climb out. He lost his grip on the handle and fell to the ground, landing on his right shoulder. He fractured his right scapula and humerus.

An employee suffered a dislocated shoulder while lifting a case of product. The employee then suffered a negative reaction to medication provided, requiring hospitalization.

An employee fell approximately 10 to 12 feet and landed on his feet. He was hospitalized with a heel or foot injury.

An employee was serving as an expeditor on a loading dock and checking out a truck driver who had finished his load. The dock door was open and as the truck moved away from the dock, which was approximately 4 feet high, the employee fell off the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury and a possible tailbone injury.

An employee slipped on ice and fractured an ankle.

An employee fell approximately four feet from a flatbed truck to the ground while trying to secure a load, suffering pelvic fractures.

An employee was standing on the rear step of a truck when he lost his footing due to ice and fell to the ground, injuring his shoulder and breaking his forearm.

On 12/30/2017, an employee was pushing an empty wheelchair out of the hallway when she fell forward onto her left arm, striking the wheelchair and the floor.

On December 30, 2017, at approximately 3:30 PM, an employee was attempting to clean clogged meat from a drain on a meat stuffer machine when a grinder unit in the drain caught his right index finger, amputating it to the first knuckle.

An employee was operating an excavator to load off-road trucks with soil. He slipped while dismounting the excavator, causing him to lose grip of the grab bar and fall to the ground. He attempted to break his fall and fractured his right wrist.

A driver was pushing a pallet jack loaded with milk through a set of double doors. The pallet jack then impacted and pushed a shopping cart into an employee, pinning the employee against the wall. The employee was hospitalized with broken ribs.

An employee was placing a felt roll into a staging cradle with an overhead crane when his finger was caught between the roll and cradle, resulting in a right pinky finger amputation.

An employee was cleaning and making adjustments to a punch press machine and partially amputated four left-hand fingers.

An employee was unloading a moving truck when he fell from the back of the truck to the ground, fracturing his wrist.

An employee was using an industrial-size table saw to cut a piece of recycled wood when the saw hit a nail in the wood and propelled the nail into the employee's forearm. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was operating a table saw to cut metal when the metal became caught in the machine and kicked the employee's right hand into the blade, lacerating the third, fourth, and fifth digits.

On December 29, 2017, at approximately 11:30 a.m., an employee was operating a chipper when a piece of wood became stuck in the mouth of the chipper. As he was attempting to pry the wood loose, he slipped and his left hand went approximately 20 inches into the mouth of the chipper and contacted the moving knives, amputating the index and middle fingers on his left hand. The chipper was running at the time of the incident.

While performing concrete form work from a scissor lift, an employee was caught between the ceiling and the lift, suffering a fractured jaw.

An employee struck a rock while skiing and fell to the ground, fracturing a tibia and fibula and requiring hospitalization.

An employee was working off a ladder while taking a measurement for downspout strap placement. He was approximately 14 feet high when the feet of the ladder kicked out, causing him to fall to the ground. He was hospitalized.

An employee exited a truck and was walking when he tripped over a snow-covered wheel chock and fell to the concrete ground, fracturing a hip.

An employee fell from a flatbed trailer to the ground while securing a load. He landed on his right leg and injured his pelvis.

An employee was cleaning a screw auger and got his right index finger caught in the auger resulting in amputation of the finger.

An employee was performing maintenance on a coil tubing unit, removing a bad section of coil from a reel. While trying to clear a jam in the large coil, the injured employee was struck by the coil, suffering a fractured ankle and elbow.