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An employee was on a 6-foot A-frame ladder, working to replace ceiling tiles. They fell to the ground and sustained fractures to their hip and femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was installing shoring and stepped on a 2x4 that was running across the top of a trench. He fell through and was hospitalized with a fractured left femur.

An employee was taking a break from powerwashing a deck when a door closed on his left index fingertip, resulting in an amputation above the nail.

An employee was securing a ramp to a dock to unload cargo. He was using large pins to put the ramp in place when two of his fingers got caught in the ramp, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was helping to dismantle a mobile crawler crane. Employees were separating boom sections. When the last pin was hammered out, the 40-foot boom section dropped 4-5 inches onto the injured employee's left foot. All five toes were amputated and the employee was hospitalized for surgery.

An employee had used cleaning solvent to clean the engine room. The employee turned on a vacuum, which caused an explosion to occur, followed by a fire. The employee was hospitalized with second-degree burns.

The injured employee was spotting for a forklift that was loading 2,000-pound ammunition crates onto a flatbed truck. One of the ammo crates turned on its side, fell off the forklift, and crushed the spotter's foot. The employee was hospitalized.

Two employees were working to shift a 150-pound 32-inch diameter bearing on a plastic pallet. An employee's right ring finger got caught in one of the holes while they pulled the bearing, resulting in an amputation to the fingertip.

An employee was processing boneless beef using the band saw. She finished and powered it down. She then began clearing the cutting surface when her right ring finger contacted the blade, resulting in amputation of one-quarter of the fingertip.

An employee was using a table saw to cut 2x4 lumber when the saw contacted his left index and middle fingers, resulting in partial amputations.

An employee was walking through a hallway that had been mopped when he slipped and fell to the floor, tearing tendons in both of his knees and requiring surgery.

An employee was on a ladder while using a pipe wrench to tighten a pipe joint when the wrench slipped and he fell from the ladder to the ground, resulting in a broken collar bone that required hospitalization.

An employee was walking through a hallway when they tripped and fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured left hip and femur.

An employee was in the dry dock working on a cement barge. While using an oxy-acetylene torch for gas cutting the employee began to suffer cramping due to heat exposure and dehydration. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was slicing meat on a band saw and partially amputated their thumb.

A welder was using an oxy-acetylene torch in a dry dock for a ship repair and sustained burns to the hand.

An employee was loading pallets into a shipping container using a forklift. As he was using a piece of wood to push in a pallet and close a gap, his hand became stuck between the wood piece and the pallet. He suffered a finger injury while removing his hand that required medical amputation.

An employee was removing 4-inch by 12-inch wooden tire chocks from a meat processor modular unit. A tire chock was thrown into an electric cart and landed on the gas pedal. The cart struck the employee and pinned him against the bottom frame of the modular unit. The employee was hospitalized for fractures of the ribs, shoulder, and vertebrae as well as a punctured lung.

An employee tripped on a slope while carrying a box of supplies. Her leg buckled and she fell, the box landing on her leg. She suffered a leg fracture and was hospitalized.

An employee slipped and fell on the tile in an office building's bathroom. He suffered injuries to the left hip, thigh, and knee and was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing down a maintenance stand to reposition the stand's foot-activated wheel lock. The employee reached down with their left hand to pull up the wheel lock; the lock disengaged and crushed the employee's index finger between the mechanical brake mechanism and the limit setting bolt.

The injured employee was working in a two-person team conducting troubleshooting and repair of an onboard boat engine. The engine started and the injured employee's right index fingertip was amputated. The cowling guards had been removed to provide access to the engine components.

An employee was doing housekeeping work with a 150-horsepower industrial vacuum. The vacuum sucked in a piece of plastic, then sucked in the employee's right arm as the employee tried to remove the plastic. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to the arm.

An employee was preparing to make a cardboard bale using the box baler. He was unjamming a piece when his fingertip was caught between a chain and the wall of the machine resulting in amputation.

An employee was backing up a yard tractor that was hooked up to a chassis with a loaded container. The chassis with the container flipped over and pulled down the tractor with it. The employee fell off the vehicle and suffered fractured ribs and vertebrae and a fractured wrist.