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An employee was preparing a bundle of green onions for chopping. While holding the bundle in his left hand, he made his first cut using a 9-inch kitchen knife held in his right hand. The knife contacted the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation of approximately 0.5 inches of the thumb that required hospitalization.

An employee was cutting the end from a bunch of celery with a kitchen knife while holding the celery with their other hand. The blade contacted the tip of their left thumb, resulting in a fingertip amputation including the loss of soft tissue.

An employee was trimming hedges when he slipped and his right thumb contacted the blades of the hedge trimmers. He sustained amputation of approximately 80% of the right thumb beyond the first joint and a laceration to the right index finger.

At the end of a shift on the downhill coaster, an employee was waiting for an empty cart to arrive at the bottom so he could ride it back up the hill. The cart arrived with its seat belt safety lock engaged. The employee boarded the top of the cart and began working to disengage the lock by reaching under the cart. His right hand and two fingers got caught between the rear wheel of the cart and the coaster rail. His ring and little fingers were crushed and lacerated, resulting in surgery and partial amputation of the ring finger.

An employee was moving equipment as a part of closing duties when the cooler amputated their left index fingertip.

An employee was preparing to conduct maintenance on a riding lawn mower and lifted the mower deck upward to its vertical position with assistance from another employee. A third employee pulled a locking pin, causing the front wheel mount to move forward into the cab. The cab entrance hand hold crushed the little fingers on the injured employee's hands. The employee was hospitalized and required surgical amputation of the right little finger to the second joint, as well as debriding and stitches to the left little finger.

An employee was mowing a golf course. He slipped and the mower ran over his right foot, causing the amputation of the little toe.

An employee opened up the bottom grate of the washing machine to adjust the microswitch drive on the unbalanced microswitch. Once they adjusted the rod on the microswitch, the washing machine started back up. The employee sustained a complete amputation of the left arm to the middle of the humerus and lacerations to the head.

An employee was slicing fruit using a fruit peeler and sustained an amputation to his left little finger.

An employee was removing bleachers and separating two units when the front section of bleachers jumped up and caught his right index fingertip. The fingertip was crushed and amputated.

An employee was greasing the chain of a Christmas show bus when his finger was caught in the chain. The employee's left index fingertip was amputated.

An employee was feeding a bonobo (primate) when it bit them and amputated their right thumb at a knuckle.

On October 6, 2024, a chef was preparing food in the kitchen using a knife and amputated her left middle fingertip.

An employee was cutting onions in the banquet kitchen when their left thumb was cut, resulting in a partial amputation.

On July 5, 2024, an employee was working with an electric pruner when his hand slipped into the pruner. The employee sustained an amputation to the top of their left index finger.

A park ranger was attempting to apprehend an individual when the individual fired a rifle at him; the employee was struck in the right foot while returning fire. Two of the employee's toes were amputated.

An employee was using a log splitter and sustained a partial amputation of the left index finger.

An employee was cutting brunch menus with a paper cutter when the paper cutter amputated the tip of her left thumb.

Employees were installing hockey glass on the east end of an arena. The injured employee was holding a piece of glass and adjusting it in place when another piece of glass was pushed toward the injured employee. His left index finger was caught between the two pieces of glass, removing the fingertip.

An employee was cutting peppers with a knife when it contacted her left pointer finger, resulting in an amputation of the employee's nailbed.

An employee was sliding steel planks from a skid that was being elevated by a forklift to a material handling cart. Their right little finger got crushed between the planks and a permanent upright along the side of cart, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was performing maintenance work on a rollercoaster. A handheld impact drill fell from a board onto the employee's hand, causing a lifted fingernail as well as a fingertip amputation.

An employee was closing a metal door. His right middle fingertip was caught in the door's hinge as it closed and was amputated.

An employee was cutting ginger root in a kitchen when the knife contacted his left index finger, resulting in amputation.

An employee had just finished unloading a truck and was closing the roll-down door. The door's folding panels closed on the employee's right index finger, causing an amputation to the fingertip without bone loss.