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An employee was adjusting a cable reel that was loaded onto the forks of a forklift. The reel shifted and caught the employee's left index fingertip against the backrest, amputating it.

An employee was closing a hand hole lid when the lid fell on the employee's fingers. The employee's left middle fingertip was partially amputated.

An employee was removing 2,500-foot reels of 1 cable-in-conduit (CIC) weighing ~1,022 lbs. from the back of an enclosed delivery truck. The employee was manually rolling a reel off the truck when another reel shifted and rolled forward, crushing his right hand between the two reels. The employee's right ring finger was partially amputated without loss of bone.

An employee was pulling inner duct from one handhole to another. The shackle on a winch cable contacted the cable sheave's roller block. The employee released tension on the winch cable and lifted the cable to guide the shackle over the lip of the handhole. As he re-engaged the winch, his left index fingertip became caught between components in the winch's retrieval wheel. The fingertip was amputated between the last knuckle and the nail.

An employee was winding up string to blow fiber through conduit using a drill when the poly line (fiber cable) came back up and wrapped around his left index finger. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the finger.

An employee was on a temporary loading dock, receiving pieces of a large tent structure from a telehandler. She was working to straighten a packing blanket when the telehandler lowered it's tines onto her left hand. Her middle finger was degloved from the first knuckle up. The finger required surgical amputation from the first knuckle up.

An employee was standing on a portable ladder, using a handheld band saw to cut a piece of threaded rod in a ceiling. The saw jumped and struck the employee's hand. The employee suffered an amputation to the left index finger.

An employee was moving furniture with a wheel caster when his right little finger was crushed between the caster and the furniture's base, resulting in a fracture and a fingertip amputation.

At the loading dock of the warehouse, an employee was using a hand cart to unload telecom cabinets from a truck. One of the wheels of the cart caught the dock plate and a telecom cabinet fell onto the employee's foot, resulting in the medical amputation of his little toe.

An employee was completing a fiber splice in a manhole. The lid of the manhole crushed the employee's left ring finger, causing the amputation of the fingertip at the first joint.

An employee was installing an ATM and caught their finger between the metal bottom of the ATM and the concrete resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was using a pocket knife to cut cardboard boxes. They were folding the pocket knife to put it away when it amputated their fingertip.

An employee was putting a manhole cover in place. It caught the employee's right middle finger as it seated itself, causing the amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was maneuvering a telecommunications cable across a road. A truck, driving toward him, hit the line. This caused it to tighten around his left thumb and amputated it. He was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing down a ladder from a bucket on a truck. His right hand slipped and was caught in a pinch point on the ladder. The tip of his right ring finger was amputated halfway down the nail.

An employee was drilling a hole in a piece of conduit as he was running a cable through. The drill bit became caught on the pull cord that was in the conduit, causing the drill to jerk/twist. The employee's hand was pulled into the drill bit and his left finger was partially amputated.

An employee was feeding paper into a newspaper printing press when the blades rotated and amputated three fingers on the employee's right hand.

An employee was unloading a handhole for installation when it slipped, amputating their left middle and ring fingers.

An employee was working at an inserting machine that places inserts into newspapers. The employee was correcting a jam by removing material from the gripper when the machine restarted. The employee suffered an amputation of their left index fingertip.

An employee was operating a cutting machine. It jammed. The employee was clearing the jam when the machine's blade amputated the tip of his thumb.

An employee was picking up newspapers that fell from a machine that carried the papers from one side of the facility to the other. The employee's right index finger was caught in a vent hole on the machine's motor guard, and was partially amputated.

An employee was taking down his camera and tripod to put it away. As the employee was collapsing the tripod, their right ring finger became caught in the tripod legs, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was trimming a 2 x 4 piece of wood using a table saw. As the employee was guiding the push stick, the wood kicked back and his left hand slipped. His middle finger was then caught on the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip and a laceration to the right ring finger.

An employee was putting a belt back on a moving conveyor when their fingertip was amputated.

On November 10, 2022, an employee had finished work in a telecommunications manhole. As he was lifting the front edge of the manhole cover onto the raised lip of its metal ring, his left middle finger became caught between the cover and the ring. The finger was partially amputated.