Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-07 | Bowie | Tx | Family Dollar | Hip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
At 4:45 p.m. on June 7, 2021, an employee was unloading a truck when a box fell and struck her. She fell on her left hip, injuring it. | |||||
2019-06-23 | Bowie | Texas | THI Water Well | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was working on a water well when he was caught in a winch line and fell, fracturing his ribs. | |||||
2016-08-02 | Bowie | Texas | WL Plastics | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was supervising the loading of a coil onto a truck from the designated safe zone when the 500-foot, 4-inch coil weighing approximately 1,250 pounds began to slip off the spool that was being lifted by a forklift. The employee tried to push the coil back onto the spool when the coil struck him, knocking him to the ground and cracking his vertebrae. | |||||
2015-11-17 | Bowie | Texas | Energy Service Company | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee ran into a guardrail and fractured vertebrae while trying to avoid being struck by a pipe that had fallen from the elevator. |