Austin Texas – Machine Injury & Accidents

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there was an Austin Texas machinery accident that resulted in fatalities every two weeks on average from 2001-2013. This means that over the course of 13 years, there were on average 26 fatalities as a result of machinery accidents in Austin. The main cause of these accidents is often due to human error, and many times these mistakes can be prevented with proper safety measures. One way to reduce the risk of machinery accidents in Austin is to make sure that all equipment is properly maintained. If something does go wrong, be sure to contact a qualified technician as soon as possible so that the machine can be fixed and prevent any further damage.

Manufacturing Companies

Manufacturing companies are a big part of the Austin economy. In fact, there are more than 60 manufacturing companies located in the city. Some of the biggest manufacturers in Austin include

Tesla, Inc.
Cirrus Logic, Inc.
Yeti Holdings, Inc.
National Instruments Corporation
Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings, Inc.
Hanger, Inc.
Nxp Usa, Inc.

Freescale Semiconductor Holdings V, Inc.
Ultra Electronics Defense Inc.
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Samsung Austin Semiconductor, L.L.C.
Natera, Inc.
AAC Group Holding Corp.
Hid Global Corporation

There is a lot toustin when it comes to manufacturing.

Machinery Accidents

Austin Texas machinery accidents are not uncommon and can occur for a number of reasons. Some of the most common causes of machinery accidents in Austin include operator error, defective equipment, inadequate maintenance, and lack of safety precautions. If you or someone you know has been injured as a result of a machinery accident in Austin, please do not hesitate to contact an experienced personal injury lawyer for help.

Here are three recent examples of accidents that caused extensive damage and injuries.

AccidentDate	Employer	City	State	Description	Injury	Body Part	Event	Injury Source	Other Injury Source
15/11/2021	Renaissance Austin Hotel	Austin	Tx	An employee was working on a 4-foot ladder to change recessed light bulbs for a 10-foot ceiling when he fell from the ladder, resulting in hospitalization due to a possible broken left hip and a left hand injury.	Fractures	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet	Movable ladders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
13/11/2021	Regency IHS Clinical Consulting, LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee placed a hot pan of butter into a sink of water causing the butter and water to splatter and burn the employee's head, face, neck, left arm, and right upper leg.	Heat (thermal) burns	Multiple body parts	Contact with hot objects or substances	Fats, oils, cooking greases	Water
11/11/2021	Palm Harbor Homes	Austin	Tx	An employee was cutting a 12-inch steel I-beam. A spark from the employee's cutting torch lit the employee's jacket on fire. The employee suffered burns to the upper and lower back.	Heat (thermal) burns	Multiple back regions	Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source	Suits, coats, jackets	Welding, cutting, and blow torches
08/11/2021	Tesla, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was installing solar panels on a roof when the standing seam metal roof anchor detached from the roof, causing the employee and the fall protection system to fall to the ground approximately 11.5 feet below. The employee suffered fractures to their vertebrae, wrist, and hand.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet	Roofs	Lifelines, lanyards, safety belts, harnesses
03/11/2021	4MC Enterprises LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was walking through a corridor when his legs gave out, causing him to fall to the floor. The employee's left leg was broken.	Fractures	Leg(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.	Floor
26/10/2021	Halstruc Inc	Austin	Tx	An employee was cutting plywood pieces with a circular saw. The blade jammed. When the employee freed it up, it moved forward and cut the employee's left index, middle, ring, and little fingers. The middle finger was amputated.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker	Saws-powered, except chainsaws
23/10/2021	D Guerra Construction LLC	Austin	Tx	Two employees were in a sewer line trench when it collapsed. One of them was buried completely and suffered swelling of the brain.	Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages	Brain	Excavation or trenching cave-in	Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
14/10/2021	Flextronics America, LLC	Austin	Tx	On October 14, 2021, an employee was trying to maneuver a powered industrial truck off a dock leveler near warehouse racking. The truck was caught on the dock leveler; as the employee moved it side to side to free it, the employee's left hand was caught between the truck's handle and a warehouse racking column. The employee suffered a crushing injury to the hand, wrist, and forearm (with no fracture or dislocation) and was hospitalized for surgery.	Crushing injuries	Multiple upper extremities locations	Nonclassifiable	Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered	Racks-garment and other
20/09/2021	Delta Railroad Construction Inc	Austinburg	Oh	An employee was hooking up a metal buggy to an overhead crane. The metal buggy fell and crushed the employee's foot. The employee's was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.	Crushing injuries	Foot (feet)	Struck by object or equipment	Nonclassifiable	Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
20/09/2021	Texas Home Health Hospice-Austin, LLC.	Austin	Tx	A nurse was visiting a patient's home to change out the regulator on the patient's oxygen tank. Oxygen from the tank ignited causing third degree burns to the employee's hands.	Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns	Hand(s)	Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids	Oxygen and oxygen compounds
31/08/2021	Spectrum Communications	Austin	Tx	An employee was installing cable service in an attic. He fell through a sheet rock ceiling, landing about 9 feet below and suffered a broken right kneecap.	Fractures	Knee(s)	Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet	Ceilings	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
23/08/2021	Volt Info Sciences dba Volt Workforce Solutions	Austin	Tx	An employee fell from a conveyor belt, landing on the floor 1 1/2 feet below and suffering a broken right knee.	Fractures	Knee(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet	Conveyors-belt	Floor, n.e.c.
20/08/2021	United Airlines	Austin	Tx	An employee was driving an airport tug when it ran over chocks. The employee was ejected and the tug ran over his left lower leg, breaking it.	Fractures	Lower leg(s)	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.	Airport utility vehicle-powered	Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
19/08/2021	Construction Metal Products	Austin	Tx	Employees were sliding a 12-foot steel column when one employee's right hand was caught between the column and a metal plumbing sleeve. The employee's little fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment	Structural elements	Pipes, ducts, tubing, n.e.c.
17/08/2021	Toshiba Business Solutions, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee and a co-worker were delivering a copier to a client. While using the stairs and a stair climber device for copiers, the machine fell and landed on the employee, who then fell down the stairwell. The employee suffered multilevel spinous process fractures from the T4-T10 levels that required hospitalization.	Fractures	Thoracic region	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part	Photocopiers	Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
17/08/2021	Adk Environmental Inc	Austin	Tx	An employee was mowing on a slope around a pond. The mower lost traction, flipped over once, and landed back upright. The employee was hospitalized with broken ribs.	Fractures	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway	Lawn mowers-riding
30/07/2021	EMR Elevator, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was repairing an elevator door and fell from the top of the elevator cab to the bottom of the elevator shaft. The employee sustained broken arms, collapsed lungs, a head injury, a chest injury, a stomach injury, an abdominal injury, and blood clots.	Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level	Elevators	Elevator shafts
27/07/2021	Henry Power Electric, LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was doing a hot check in the garage of a high-rise. He came into contact with electrical equipment and was shocked.	Electrocutions, electric shocks	BODY SYSTEMS	Direct exposure to electricity	Electric parts
22/07/2021	G&H Construction and Remodeling LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee tripped on the metal webbing of a set of bleachers. The employee fell, suffering a broken left ankle, and was hospitalized.	Fractures	Ankle(s)	Fall, slip, trip	Grandstands, stadia
21/07/2021	Comal County Erectors LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was laying sheet metal decking at a roof elevation. He fell from the roof to a slab of concrete, suffering broken ribs and a broken pelvis.	Fractures	Multiple trunk locations	Other fall to lower level	Roofs	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
19/07/2021	Trio Electric, LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was on a section of an extension ladder, installing caulking in a wall approximately 8 to 10 feet from the floor level. The ladder slipped away from the wall and the employee fell to the ground, suffering a broken right arm requiring hospitalization and surgery.	Fractures	Arm(s)	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet	Extension ladders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
18/07/2021	Brinker International, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was using a slicer to cut vegetables and amputated the tip of his right thumb.	Amputations	Fingertip(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment	Food slicers
16/07/2021	R2 Corporation	Austin	Tx	An employee was shredding plastic material when their middle finger was pulled into the shredder, resulting in amputation.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery
14/07/2021	Direct Roofing, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was on a portable ladder, installing a metal awning over a doorway. The employee fell from the ladder to the concrete ground, suffering a broken wrist.	Fractures	Wrist(s)	Other fall to lower level	Movable ladders	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
28/06/2021	Ericsson Wireless Communications INC	Austin	Tx	An employee and a co-worker were unloading a cable spool weighing approximately 500 to 600 pounds from a trailer. The spool shifted and fell from the edge of the trailer onto the employee's lower right leg, resulting in a fracture that required surgery.	Fractures	Lower leg(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part	Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones	Trailers
21/06/2021	HN GLOBAL, LLC.	Austin	Tx	Three employees were demolishing a wall inside a clean room. One of them was holding a base plate while a wall panel was removed. The panel dislodged and fell on the employee's right thumb, injuring it. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment	Construction debris
17/06/2021	ICU Medical	Austin	Tx	An employee was descending a fixed ladder on a conveyor system. He fell backward off the ladder onto the concrete floor, suffering a right midfoot fracture dislocation and a left intra-articular distal tibia and fibula fracture. He was hospitalized.	Fractures and dislocations	Foot(feet) and leg(s)	Other fall to lower level	Ladders-fixed
13/06/2021	Crossmark, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was walking and moved to avoid a customer who was also walking. The employee tripped and fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a pelvis fracture that required hospitalization.	Fractures	Pelvis	Fall on same level due to tripping	Floor
04/06/2021	Continental Homes of Texas, L.P.	Austin	Tx	An employee was chipping up concrete around an air conditioning slab using a hammer. A sharp piece of concrete dislodged and struck his chest causing internal bleeding.	Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by dislodged flying object, particle	Chips, particles, splinters	Hammers, except sledge-nonpowered
01/06/2021	Builder's FirstSource	Austin	Tx	A temporary employee was bending down to pick up a lateral support block when his nail gun fired a nail into his right knee.	Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds	Knee(s)	Struck by discharged object or substance	Nails, brads, tacks, nuts, bolts, washers	Nail guns-powered
06/05/2021	FQSR LLC dba Kbp Foods	Austin	Tx	An employee was frying chicken. The employee opened the lid to the chicken fryer after a timer went off and hot oil spilled out striking his face, chest, and both arms and causing burns.	Heat (thermal) burns	Multiple body parts	Contact with hot objects or substances	Fats, oils, cooking greases	Broiling and frying equipment and appliances
16/04/2021	Averitt Express	Austin	Tx	An employee was unloading freight from a truck. The pallet holding the freight slid and the lift gate came down on the employee's left foot, breaking the foot and the ankle.	Fractures	Foot (feet) and ankle(s)	Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached	Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility	Skids, pallets
26/03/2021	Now Specialties, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was filling up a boom lift with a 5-gallon diesel can. He fell from the top of the boom lift's wheel to the ground and his face hit the fuel can. He suffered a cut above his left eyebrow and nose from the fuel can, as well as a broken neck vertebra and a contusion to the right hand from the fall.	Fractures	Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level	Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
23/03/2021	Baxton Construction Services, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was descending from a column form. He slipped and fell to the concrete about 3 1/2 feet below, suffering a broken wrist and broken vertebrae.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet	Structural elements	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
12/03/2021	Penhall Company	Austin	Tx	An employee was working in a basement, keeping the area secure while other employees drilled down from the floor above. The concrete core drilled out from the floor above fell down, struck the rim of the core-catching bucket, then fell about 15 feet further, striking the employee's hardhat and then the back of his head and neck. He suffered a laceration to the back of the head and a ruptured cervical disk.	Fractures	Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.	Construction debris
06/03/2021	Patriot Erectors, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was cutting welds loose on a steel assembly. The assembly broke loose and struck the employee, resulting in a fractured sternum, fractured collarbone, two fractured ribs, a bruised lung, and a fractured toe.	Fractures	Multiple body parts	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.	Structures and surfaces
09/02/2021	SLATER PAINTING COMPANY	Austin	Tx	A Slater Painting employee was working from a scaffold inside an elevator shaft between the first and second floor and was struck by a hammer drill dropped by an employee of another company that was working on the 15th floor. The employee sustained a broken arm.	Fractures	Arm(s)	Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker	Drills-powered
09/02/2021	Capital Concrete, LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was stripping a metal and concrete form when the bracket they were harnessed to failed and the employee fell 4-6 feet to the ground, resulting in injuries and possible hospitalization.	Traumatic injuries and disorders	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet	Nonclassifiable	Fasteners, connectors, ropes, ties, n.e.c.
25/01/2021	J.T. Vaughn Construction, LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was operating a utility loader and backed up into a horizontal beam. The employee sustained a broken rib.	Fractures	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.	Loaders	Girders, beams, structural steel
13/01/2021	P&J Arcomet LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was using a crane to move a longform pan for framers on the twelfth story of a construction site. The crane's load struck the tie-off safety lines for two framer's fall harnesses, causing them to fall to the eleventh story 12-14 feet below. Both employees were hospitalized.	Traumatic injuries and disorders	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet	Floor	Cranes
08/01/2021	Martin Marietta	Austin	Tx	An employee tripped in a shallow, grass-covered hole by a roadside. He fell, suffering fractures to the left knee and right wrist.	Fractures	Upper and lower limb(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface	Ground irregularity	Ground, n.e.c.
20/10/2020	Aginomoto Foods North American Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee was cleaning a fryer when a bucket was tipped over, spilling a foaming alkaline caustic cleaner that burned the employee.	Chemical burns and corrosions	Nonclassifiable	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue	Cleaning and polishing agents
19/10/2020	Facility Solutions Group, Inc.	Austin	Tx	An employee reached down to brush debris from the outrigger of a bucket truck. The outrigger retracted and amputated the employee's fingers.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation	Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
19/10/2020	Nordstrom	Austin	Tx	An employee fell and injured her knee while delivering an order to a customer's car in the mall parking lot.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Knee(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.	Parking lot-paved	Recreation and athletic equipment, n.e.c.
09/10/2020	BRZ Granie and Marble LLC	Austin	Tx	An employee was standing in front of a slab of quartz that was being moved by a forklift. The slab of quartz fell from the forklift and the employee attempted to stop the slab from falling. The slab struck his hand and amputated four fingers.	Amputations	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part	Stone, marble, granite slabs	Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
05/10/2020	Cece's Veggie Co	Austin	Tx	An employee was driving a lift truck and caught his left foot between the lift truck and a bollard. The employee's left lower leg and foot were injured.	Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury	Foot(feet) and leg(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident	Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered	Posts, bollards, moorings
03/09/2020	U.S. Postal Service	Austin	Tx	An employee began having stomach pains while tossing packages on a conveyor. The employee was later hospitalized with a hernia.	Hernias due to traumatic incidents	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Overexertion in throwing-multiple episodes	Packages, parcels
17/08/2020	Dan Williams Company	Austin	Tx	The injured employee was standing in a hole with a pipe in it during road construction. The employee was unloading bags of concrete from an excavator bucket in preparation for pouring the concrete around the pipe in the hole. The excavator bucket was lowered onto the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized for a crushing injury to the left foot that required surgery.	Crushing injuries	Foot (feet)	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle	Excavating machinery
04/08/2020	Osburn Contractors	Austin	Tx	An employee was hospitalized for a heart attack, possibly related to heat stress.	Myocardial infarction (heart attack)	Heart	Exposure to environmental heat	Heat-environmental
15/07/2020	C.C Carlton Industries. Ltd.	Austin	Texas	An employee was putting a grease container on a fuel service truck at the fueling station. He tripped and fell on the ground, sustaining a dislocated knee that required surgery.	Dislocation of joints	Knee(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping	Floors, walkways, ground surfaces
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