Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-04-09 | Alvin | Tx | Ascend Performance Materials Texas Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee walked into a location in a tank containment dike where part of a grate had been removed, causing his right leg to sink in hot wash water up to his knee. The water filled his rubber boot and he suffered second- and third-degree burns below the knee. | |||||
2020-09-22 | Alvin | Tx | EJ Reynolds | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee made a cut with a saw, turned the saw off, and struck the still spinning blade as he reached for the cut piece. His fingers were lacerated. | |||||
2020-05-13 | Alvin | Texas | CenterPoint Energy Entex | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
An employee in the parking lot suffered an amputation of the end of the pinky finger up to the first joint below the fingernail when a coworker closed a car door on the injured employee's finger. | |||||
2019-08-22 | Alvin | Texas | Team Industrial Services | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was setting up a flange machine during training. The machine shifted, pinching his right hand against the flange. The hand was broken and lacerated, and he was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-07-19 | Calvin | West Virgini | Townsend Tree Service Company, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was trimming a tree and unknowingly cut his primary climbing rope. When he completed his cutting work, he unfastened his secondary (safety) rope to begin his decent down the tree and immediately fell to the ground. | |||||
2019-06-22 | Alvin | Texas | Performance Contractors, Inc. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was working on a modified scaffold preparing to install an I-beam and fell approximately 9 feet to the concrete ground. The employee suffered a head and back injury. | |||||
2019-05-09 | Alvin | Texas | Wood PLC | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was climbing a fixed ladder when he slipped and fell about 8 feet to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured left arm. | |||||
2018-09-25 | Alvin | Texas | DC Vacuum, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
An employee was bleeding down the pressure from a well to a vacuum truck when the gas fumes ignited, causing the employee to receive second degree burns to his hands and face. | |||||
2018-09-20 | Alvin | Texas | ASCEND PERFORMANCE MATERIALS LLC | Foot (feet) | Exposure to harmful substance through skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
While decontaminating equipment and boots, an employee potentially came in contact with chemicals. The employee suffered an infection to both feet and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-09-05 | Alvin | Texas | RK Resources, LP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
An employee was overseeing as a wire was being run through a machine when the wire became jammed. As he tried to help unjam it, the wire caught his left hand and amputated his upper left thumb. | |||||
2018-06-11 | Alvin | Texas | Ascend Performance Materials | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee was helping to load wood crates in the bag boxing area. The employee was caught between a strapping machine and a crate. The employee sustained five broken ribs. | |||||
2018-06-04 | Alvin | Texas | Zachry Industrial Inc. | Forearm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was loosening bolts on a flange to drain water from a furnace header when he was contacted by condensate, burning his right and left forearms. | |||||
2018-05-24 | Alvin | Texas | ASCEND PERFORMANCE MATERIALS LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was struck in the back by a piece of a stainless steel organic solvent container that became over-pressurized and burst, suffering back lacerations. The container had at least 200 pounds of pressure and was full of liquid nitrogen at the time. | |||||
2018-02-10 | Alvin | Texas | ZACHARY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment rolling freely |
An employee was attempting to relocate a 10-inch flange by hand. During the relocation, the flange started to roll onto its side and the employee attempted to control the flange catching the employee's right middle finger between the rolling flange and another flange on the pallet resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2018-01-11 | Alvin | Texas | BrandSafway Solutions | Ankle(s) | Other exertions or bodily reactions |
An employee was installing a metal jacket onto a 12" plumbing line. He was on a slope, lost his footing and rolled his right ankle. This resulted in a dislocated and fractured ankle. | |||||
2017-06-01 | Alvin | Texas | SPS Inc. | Hand(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was moving a 200-foot steel cable with a forklift when the forklift tipped over and landed on the employee's left hand, fracturing it and requiring surgery. | |||||
2017-01-23 | Alvin | Texas | Ron Carter Autoworld, LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was reaching for some keys on the wall in the shop area when his foot got caught in a cord and he fell breaking a hip. | |||||
2017-01-10 | Alvin | Texas | AHI Supply | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was placing rebar into the bending machine and amputated the right index fingertip when the machine was activated. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-08-30 | Alvin | Illinois | Alvarez Industrial Cleaning | Upper arm(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
On August 30, 2016, around 11:30 a.m., an employee went up in an articulating lift to conduct painting activities on a building. He contacted power lines and fell into the basket. The employee was hospitalized for burns on his right arm between his elbow and shoulder. | |||||
2015-12-02 | Alvin | Texas | Riviana Foods | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee saw a build up of rice on the rice polisher feed hopper. He shut off the equipment to clean it. His right fingertip got caught in the feed hopper and was amputated. | |||||
2015-08-27 | Alvin | Texas | Southern Commercial Industries | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was attempting to start the commercial riding lawn mower in the manual mode. While starting the mower, the employee's got caught in the pulleys. Half the index finger was amputated and the middle and ring fingers were amputated to the first joint. | |||||
2015-08-09 | Alvin | Texas | Colo Railroad Builders | Leg(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Employees were moving pieces of rail into position with a backhoe to repair a section of damaged railroad. The injured employee was standing too close to another piece of railing when the backhoe operator set down another piece. His leg was pinched between the two pieces breaking it. | |||||
2015-07-21 | Alvin | Texas | Zachary Industrial, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee completed painting activities and started getting cramps. The employee rode the bike to the water station to take a break. The cramping worsened, and the employee was hospitalized. |