It's the highest-volume shopping season of the year, which means warehouses filled to capacity in stores across the state. But high-volume materials handling can create hazards that cause injuries ranging from the uncomfortable (scraped knuckles and paper cuts) to the disabling (back and shoulder wounds) to the deadly (falls and burns). In any workplace that increases inventory during the holiday season, take "work-related injuries" off your employees' gift list by addressing the hazards below.

Two temporary workers at Land O'Lakes Purina Feed in Turlock, Brian Beauchamp and Sean Taylor Turner, were assigned to shovel feed into bags on the fifth floor of the feed mill and set them by the wall to be taken care of later.