Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-25 | Farmers Branch | Tx | Tuesday Morning Partners, Ltd. | Upper extremities | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was standing at a roller conveyor when it started up. The employee's gloved hand was caught in a roller. The employee suffered a degloving injury and was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-06-05 | Farmerville | La | Foster Farms Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was unclogging a pump with chicken product. His right hand got caught in the pump, and the index and middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2020-06-23 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a ladder to the concrete floor while performing maintenance work, suffering a head injury. | |||||
2020-06-11 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Groves Electrical Services, Inc | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was descending a light pole and stepped onto an A-frame ladder in the closed position. The ladder gave way and the employee fell approximately 8 feet to the ground level, suffering right hip and right rib injuries. | |||||
2020-05-30 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Novolex Seals Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was changing the roll on a winder machine when the employee's hand entered the machine to cut plastic, resulting in amputation of the right index finger. | |||||
2020-02-24 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Flying Jack's Contractors, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
A carpenter was cutting 5-inch shims for a door jam project. While cutting on two saw horses, his saw kicked back and cut his left hand which was holding the wood board. He was hospitalized for a cut to his first and fifth digits and a severed tendon on the first digit that requires surgery. | |||||
2020-01-23 | Farmer City | Illinois | Monsanto Company | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was cleaning a grader drum with compressed air. His arm was caught and injured between the drum and the equipment's frame. He was hospitalized to treat a muscle injury. | |||||
2019-07-27 | Farmer | South Dakota | Central Farmers Coop | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was performing work between a tender truck and an applicator truck. The applicator truck coasted forward and pinned the employee between the two vehicles. The employee sustained multiple fractured ribs. | |||||
2019-06-01 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was climbing down a ladder when a nearby belt and pulley system caught his left hand, causing the amputation of the little finger. | |||||
2019-05-24 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Claiborne Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
A crew was cutting trees along a fence line when a branch fell and hit an employee on the back of the head. | |||||
2019-03-14 | Farmers Branch | Texas | El Rancho | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was struck by an automobile while retrieving shopping carts in the store's parking lot, suffering multiple injuries. | |||||
2019-03-07 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Tuesday Morning | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
While walking to a conveyor, an employee tripped over a yellow metal guard on the floor. The employee suffered an injury to the right knee. | |||||
2018-07-21 | Farmers Branch | Texas | ADVANCED CONCRETE SURFACES, LTD | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee felt ill and was hospitalized with symptoms of dehydration. | |||||
2018-07-10 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Heath Consultants Incorporated | Nonclassifiable | Bites and stings |
While finding a gas line's tracer wire, an employee moved vegetation from around a gas meter and was bitten on the right ring finger by a snake. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2018-06-07 | Farmers Branch | Texas | United States Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
The employee had just completed their route and began experiencing symptoms of heat-related illness. | |||||
2018-04-12 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster farms | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was repairing a photo sensor on a pallet wrapper. As he was lowering the top plate onto the machine, the plate dropped onto one of his fingers, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2017-09-26 | Farmersville | Texas | Rise Broadband | Ankle(s) | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was checking the position of a radio tower when it began to collapse. He jumped off the collapsing tower and shattered his ankle. | |||||
2017-09-09 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Tuesday Morning Partners, Inc. | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
An employee was stacking pallets when a nearby forklift operator reversed and struck the employee, who suffered lacerations to the right heel and ankle. | |||||
2017-07-21 | Farmer City | Illinois | Jackson-Citrus, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
On Friday, July 21, 2017, at 4:45 p.m., an employee was overcome with heat exhaustion while detasseling corn. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-06-09 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Poultry Farms | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
An employee received an electric shock while troubleshooting a marinade injector machine. Moisture and water had entered the 220V plug on the side of the machine, causing an instant shock and partial right-side paralysis to the employee. | |||||
2016-09-14 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Advanced Concrete Surfaces, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
After returning to the warehouse, an employee felt overheated and began cramping due to dehydration. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2016-04-21 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing maintenance on a piece of machinery when the machine became energized and amputated his right index finger. | |||||
2016-01-07 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Brain | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
An employee was injured in a fight and suffered bleeding in the brain. | |||||
2015-11-11 | Farmersville | Texas | Gerdau | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to free the arm piece of a pneumatically operated shear line machine. The machine's arm became free and caught the employee's right index finger between the arm and the frame of the machine, amputating it. | |||||
2015-10-23 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Kenco Logistics LLC | Hip(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
Two forklifts collided and one employee suffered a hip injury. | |||||
2015-10-07 | Farmers Branch | Texas | JMEG, LP | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was hospitalized with a fractured right wrist and skull fracture after falling off a 10-foot ladder. | |||||
2015-07-28 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
Part of an employee's left thumb was amputated while operating a circular saw. | |||||
2015-05-08 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Precision Landscape Management , LP | Ankle(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was digging with a shovel when the shovel hit his ankle. He received a hairline fracture on his ankle. | |||||
2015-03-04 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Staff Force Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee fell from the third floor to the second floor when his foot got stuck on a pallet. He fell with the pallet to the second floor. He broke his femur and was admitted to the hospital and treated. | |||||
2015-02-23 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
The employee was working at a production line where breast meat is inspected prior to packaging. The employee reached down and underneath a conveyor belt where her glove was caught in a pinch point, amputating her right index fingertip. The doctor described it as a de-gloving of the fingertip with removal of the bone tip. | |||||
2015-02-07 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Venture Metals | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
Employee was performing maintenance on the Sweed machine. He opened the machine before turning it off and his hand became caught in the gears. | |||||
2015-01-15 | Farmers Branch | Texas | Tindall Mechanical | Fingertip(s) | Rubbed or abraded by friction or pressure, n.e.c. |
Employee was bleeding the pressure off a weighted ball used to check stormwater pipes for leaks. The weight of the water inside the PVC pipe caused the ball to slide down the pipe. Employee grabbed the rope strap with his right hand and the strap's force and sharp edge severed his right-thumb tip. The finger tip was recovered and delivered to Parkland Hospital, but didn't have enough bone to be reattached. |