| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-01 | New Caney | Tx | Creacom, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| Employees were guiding a steel lid for a concrete ground box. The lid was suspended by a backhoe. The knuckle of the backhoe curled, causing the lid to swing and pinch an employee's left hand against the ground box resulting in amputation of two fingers. | |||||
| 2019-09-06 | New Caney | Texas | Waste Management of Conroe | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was servicing trash containers in a residential neighborhood and experienced weakness in his legs. He was hospitalized with a heat illness. | |||||
| 2019-05-08 | New Caney | Texas | Food Town, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing |
| An employee was monitoring a 4-inch pump line being used to pump flood water away from a retention pond next to the facility. Two men drove up to the employee and robbed and stabbed him with a box cutter. He was hospitalized for bowel injuries. | |||||
| 2018-02-14 | New Caney | Texas | Triad Measurement & Equipment, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was lifting a pipe approximately 36 inches long. The pipe slipped from the crane rigging, contacted the floor first and then contacted the employee's lower shin area of the right leg. The employee suffered a lower leg fracture. | |||||
| 2016-09-20 | New Caney | Texas | T&D Solutions | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee at a utility power pole was moving an insulator cover that was draped over a power wire. He was working from a bucket truck about 30 feet up. When the employee removed the insulator, the insulator cover failed and an arc flash occurred, causing flash burns to the employee's hands. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-02-09 | New Caney | Texas | ABC Professional Tree Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| Workers were performing tree trimming activities at a residential jobsite. While moving traffic cones that were stored on a wood chipper, an employee's right hand contacted the chipper's fan assembly, amputating his fingertips. | |||||
| 2015-10-12 | Caney | Kansas | SPEARS MANUFACTURING | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving a toolbox on wheels to set up for his shift. It struck a stationary toolbox and the two handles were close enough in height that the employee's left middle finger was pinched off between the two handles. As part of the surgical repair the distal phalange was removed in order to accommodate the formation of a dermal flap. | |||||