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A flagger was directing traffic flow in a highway work zone. They were standing approximately 1.5 feet behind the shoulder's demarcating line, next to and slightly behind a traffic drum. As they were directing traffic into and out of the driveway of a parking lot, a car attempted to get around a truck and struck the traffic drum, which subsequently struck the employee, who was thrown 15 feet and landed on top of concrete aggregate. The employee suffered pelvic and rib fractures, T10 and L3 vertebra fractures, and internal bleeding.

An employee was troubleshooting a power washer in the field. Because there might have been water in its fuel, he brought it back to the shop and drained about a gallon of fuel from the tank into a plastic container. Some of the fuel spilled onto the floor and ignited. The employee was stomping out the fire when he lost his balance and tripped into a stool, which caused the plastic container to spill more fuel onto the fire. The employee's pants and shirt caught on fire, and he fell, abrading his knee while trying to get through the flames. As well as the knee abrasion, he suffered burns to the left leg and left lower quadrant of the torso. He was hospitalized.

An employee was backing up a tram (towing powered industrial equipment) to connect it to a trash bin. The employee's left forearm/wrist was caught and crushed between the tram and the bin. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee went to lift a carton and tripped on a different carton that was on the floor. She fell on the floor in the backroom and sustained a fractured right hip, and abrasions to her arm and knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was conducting a delivery of beverage products and began having cramps due to dehydration. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was driving and delivering packages when he experienced back spasms and lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized for heat exhaustion and injury to his kidney.

An employee was removing lifting cables from a structure. The employee climbed onto a manhole structure and then fell down the outside of the structure to the ground. He suffered fractured ribs and an air pocket in the lungs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was caught in swinging doors, tripped, fell to the floor, and suffered a hip injury. The employee was hospitalized, requiring hip surgery.

On July 14, 2025, an employee was walking down a ramp next to a pallet grinder after dumping a bin of pallet pieces into it. A 3-foot board flew out of the grinder and struck his head when he was about 12 feet away from the machine. He suffered cuts to the forehead and face and was hospitalized.

An employee was changing out a metal coil when the coil fell on his foot. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured foot.

An employee was performing asbestos abatement in high heat and humid conditions wearing personal protective equipment when he began experiencing cramping to multiple parts of the body. The employee was hospitalized with heat exhaustion and dehydration.

An employee was walking inside a 250,000-bushel corn bin when their left leg was pulled into the rotating driveshaft of the bin sweep. The employee sustained a left leg amputation below the knee.

On June 19, 2025, a package delivery driver became ill while completing his route. He was hospitalized, having suffered a kidney injury due to dehydration.

An employee was framing the first floor of a structure when he lost balance and fell approximately 8-9 feet through a hole in the floor intended for the stairwell and landed on the concrete floor of the basement. The employee sustained fractures to the left side of his face and ribs, a left ear injury causing hearing loss, and a brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was moving a hand cart carrying water down a truck ramp. They slipped and fell forward while moving down the ramp and held onto the hand truck as it slid down to the bottom of the ramp. The employee struck their knees and suffered a fingertip amputation to the left middle finger.

At about 9:45 a.m. on May 8, 2025, an employee was standing on an aluminum plank to tape ceiling drywall in a stairwell leading to a second-floor loft in a garage. The plank collapsed, he fell to the steps below, and then tumbled to the bottom of the steps. He suffered cuts and a fracture to his right leg and was hospitalized.

An employee was troubleshooting an electrical panel when an arc flash occurred and the employee lost consciousness. The employee also sustained burns and was hospitalized.

An employee was pulling two separate egg racks when the wheels of the front rack locked, causing the second rack to crush his thumb between both of the racks. The employee sustained an amputation to the tip of the right thumb.

An employee was adjusting the paper pouch on a filler machine and sustained a left ring fingertip amputation.

An employee was working on a mobile exit conveyor. He was stacking bottoms. He went to unjam a drawer bottom and his glove got caught in a sprocket, resulting in the amputation of his right middle fingertip and an open displaced fracture of the right ring finger.

An employee was using a circular saw to cut a piece of 2 x 4 when the piece jumped forward and he sustained amputated tissue from his left index fingertip.

An employee was spraying grease on a chain when their left hand became caught in the chain drive of a roller conveyor. Multiple fingers were amputated and the employee was hospitalized.

An employee was working from a mezzanine, pushing a wooden crate. The employee fell about 8 feet and suffered a head injury.

An employee was aqua blasting (water and abrasive media) lead paint from the surface of a spherical tank within a lead containment area. The employee finished blasting, then proceeded to walk down from the third deck of the scaffolding and fell. The employee sustained fractures to their left and right pubic bones and their left tibia.

An employee was on a ladder welding when a piece of slag fell onto his sweater which caught fire. The employee sustained burns to the upper body.