Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2018-03-22 | Cuero | Texas | Refinery Specialist Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Explosion, n.e.c. |
The injured employee was preparing samples for testing and was processing nitric acid and oil and gas samples in a glass container when the glass container exploded resulting in burns and puncture wounds to the employee's hands and arms. | |||||
2018-02-22 | Cuero | Texas | Helmerich and Payne International Drilling Co | Foot (feet) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
Three employees nippled up a blowout preventer's operation while standing in ankle-deep water that had cement residue in it. Later, one of the employee's suffered first, second, and third degree burns to his feet, requiring hospitalization. Rubber boots were not worn at the time of the incident. | |||||
2017-05-14 | Cuero | Texas | Wood Group PSN | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was retrieving a wrench from his company truck. A water hauler truck (18 wheeler) reversed into the employee's pick-up truck. The employee's leg was caught in the door jam as he jumped into the truck resulting in a lower leg fracture. | |||||
2016-01-15 | Cuero | Texas | Cuero Live Stock Commission | Leg(s) | Gored or rammed by animal |
An employee was unloading cattle when a bull gored him in the left leg. | |||||
2015-09-23 | Cuero | Texas | Myers Concrete Construction, LP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c. |
The injured employee was assisting another employee by holding metal wire. The second employee caught the injured employee's left thumb in the clamp gun resulting in amputation of the left thumb. |