Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-22 | Farwell | Tx | Johnson Bros. Corporation, a Southland Company | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was assisting with cleaning the distributor truck's tank. The distributor tank was still hot causing a rapid release of stems, burning the employee and causing them to fall from the tank to the flatbed work truck. The employee sustained burns to the face and hands, a head contusion, and a laceration above the right eye. | |||||
2021-09-16 | Farwell | Tx | Cal Maine Foods Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was using a creeper to clean under packers. As he slid under the adjacent packer he reached up and a running chain caught the employee's left hand pulling it into the sprocket. The employee's left ring finger was amputated at the first knuckle. | |||||
2020-01-27 | Farwell | Texas | BOVINA FEEDERS INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was roping a horse off when his hand was caught between the rope and a saddle horn, mangling his right thumb. | |||||
2019-03-20 | Farwell | Texas | Parmer County Cotton Growers | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was using a saw when it amputated the employee's fingertip. |