Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-09 | Cypress | Tx | Fiesta Mart #82 | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting fish with a bandsaw. The saw amputated the tip of his left index finger. | |||||
2021-07-19 | Cypress | Tx | Kroger Marketplace | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was bent over checking spill buckets at the fuel station and was struck by a pickup truck. The employee sustained lacerations on the ear and head, a broken finger, and an abdominal injury. | |||||
2021-04-24 | Cypress | Tx | BB's Tex-Orleans | Lower extremities | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was walking in a back kitchen/storage area. The employee stepped into a drain containing hot water and suffered second-degree burns. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-02-11 | Cypress | Tx | R Construction Civil, LLC | Eye(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was using a sledgehammer to remove a keeper when a metal piece broke off and struck his right eye. | |||||
2020-09-29 | Cypress | Tx | H-E-B, LP | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a deli slicer. The slicer activated and amputated part of the employee's right thumb. | |||||
2020-03-18 | Cypress | Texas | Memorial Hermann Health System | Fingertip(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee was leaving a room when the door shut on her right middle finger and latched. She suffered a fracture and an amputation to the fingertip. | |||||
2019-05-06 | Cypress | Texas | Wright Service Center | Knee(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
An employee was using a hammer to remove a sprocket when a piece broke off the sprocket and embedded into his left knee. It required surgical removal. | |||||
2019-04-14 | Cypress | Texas | Fiesta Mart #82 | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
While receiving shopping baskets in a parking lot, an employee tripped and fell over a concrete parking stop. The employee suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung and was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-09-12 | Cypress | Texas | Beacon Roofing Supply | Head and neck | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was delivering shingles to a customer on the roof of a house. The employee fell from the roof edge, landing on the ground 12 feet below and suffering injuries to the nose and cervical vertebrae. | |||||
2018-09-10 | Cypress | Texas | Tex-Fab, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was using a tool to check the correct diameter of sheet metal in a roller machine when his gloved right hand was caught by the roller and pulled into the machine, crushing four fingers. As a result, the four fingers were amputated. | |||||
2018-08-03 | Cypress | Texas | Walmart Stores Inc | Pelvis | Fall on same level |
An employee fell to the ground while handling shopping carts, breaking the pelvic bone. | |||||
2018-05-04 | Cypress | Texas | Fire Protection Services, Inc | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
An employee was installing a device in an AC vent. While resetting the sensor, he installed a screw that hit a power cord underneath it. The voltage was about 220 volts. Two employees received an electric shock, and one was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-01-08 | Cypress | Texas | Sysco Businesss Systems | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking through a coffee bar when she slipped on coffee creamer on the floor and fell, fracturing her right femur and left elbow. | |||||
2018-01-04 | Cypress | Texas | R & N Manufacturing, LTD. | Multiple body parts | Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source |
An employee was welding on a flange when his shirt caught fire. He was burned on the face, right hand and arm, and right leg, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-01-24 | Cypress | Texas | Miguel Gaspar | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was assisting another worker with transporting bricks to complete the job. The employee was climbing down from the scaffold when he slipped on one of the railings and fell approximately six feet striking another piece of the scaffold during the fall. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg. | |||||
2016-07-22 | Cypress | Texas | UPS | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was driving a delivery truck and started to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat stress. | |||||
2016-03-24 | Cypress | Texas | Walmart Store #5091 | Head | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was pulling a crate of produce out of a truck using a manual pallet jack when he lost his grip and fell backward, striking the floor of the truck and injuring the back of his head. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-03-22 | Cypress | Texas | ABC Supply Co. Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
An employee was ascending a 32-foot ladder to deliver roofing supplies at a two-story home. Once he stepped off of the ladder onto the leading edge of the roof, his foot gave out, and he fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with a left tibia fracture. | |||||
2016-01-27 | Cypress | Texas | J.T. Lanehart Electric Co., Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was installing an electrical fixture when he fell from a 16-foot fiberglass A-frame ladder to the concrete floor below. He hit his head on the floor and was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-01-21 | Cypress | Texas | JPM Survey Group, LP | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was surveying land on an ATV. As he was in transit to a second survey point, he hit a dip in the land. He attempted to accelerate, but the ATV spun out and turned on its side. He was hospitalized with fractured ribs. | |||||
2015-06-17 | Cypress | Texas | Kroger #327 | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
While operating a meat band saw, an employee amputated the tip of his right index finger. The incident occurred in the cutting room within the meat department. | |||||
2015-06-04 | Cypress | Texas | Portillo Construction | Eye(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was on a pump jack scaffold installing siding on a residential home using a nail gun. A nail from the gun bounced off the wall and hit the employee in the eye. The nail got stuck in his eye, and he was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2015-04-11 | Cypress | Texas | Resource Staffing | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee went upstairs to take measurements of the attic area. He stepped back and fell off of the open floor to the tile beneath. He suffered a fractured vertebra and was bleeding from the head. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-03-03 | Cypress | Texas | National Oilwell Varco | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
Two large metal doors that swing inward/outward were being closed to perform high-pressure tests on the SB-BOP. The injured employee's left index finger's distal phalanx got pinched/stuck between the doors while closing them. The employee jerked the hand away and sustained an amputation (no bone removal) to the finger. |