Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-02 | Friendswood | Tx | Sysco Foods | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee developed heat exhaustion/dehydration while making food deliveries. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-07-03 | Friendswood | Tx | Total Wine & More | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was collecting hand baskets in a parking lot. A customer in a truck asked for one of the baskets. As the employee was handing one to him, the truck struck the employee and caused him to fall. He suffered a broken ankle. | |||||
2020-10-16 | Friendswood | Tx | Whataburger Restaurants LLC | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
After talking to a customer, an employee turned to walk away, tripped and fell to the ground, sustaining a fractured left hip. | |||||
2020-07-01 | Friendswood | Texas | Andrade Concrete & Construction, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
An employee was using a nail gun to frame the chimney area of a house when the gun shot a nail into his right lower leg. He was hospitalized and had surgery to remove the nail. | |||||
2020-04-20 | Friendswood | Texas | D&L Electric Company | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was on an 8-foot A-frame ladder, cutting sheetrock to attach an electrical terminal box. His elbow hit the terminal box and he was thrown off balance, falling to the floor from about four rungs up. He suffered a dislocated right wrist and a cut from a metal bracelet he was wearing. | |||||
2019-07-07 | Friendswood | Texas | Kroger Texas, LP #744 | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was in the parking lot collecting carts and collapsed. She had been outside for approximately 15 minutes before collapsing. She was hospitalized for a heat induced seizure. | |||||
2019-05-22 | Friendswood | Texas | Leslie's Poolmart, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was delivering pool supplies. The rope used to lift the roll-up door on the back of the truck got stuck. The employee attempted to use the powered lift gate to get the rope out by operating the lift gate and caught their left index finger between the lift gate and the truck. The finger was amputated. | |||||
2017-05-06 | Friendswood | Texas | HEB Grocery Company, LP | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was helping a customer load a purchased decorative windmill into the customer's vehicle when a metal windmill blade fell off of the windmill and lacerated the back of the employee's left ankle. | |||||
2016-06-22 | Friendswood | Texas | Sears | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee missed the last step of an escalator and fell coming down it. She fractured her right ring and pinky fingers, requiring surgery. | |||||
2016-04-04 | Friendswood | Texas | Friendswood TRS, LLC | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee had been working on stripping and waxing the floor when the floor buffer machine made a loud noise. The employee bent over to make an adjustment to the machine and fell on the floor, fracturing the left leg. | |||||
2015-11-30 | Friendswood | Texas | Steel Masters, L.P. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was using a Sumner roust-a-bout to lift an I Beam. The roust-a-bout lost balance and tipped over. The employee tried to stop the I-Beam from falling. The I-beam fell and landed on the employee's left pinky finger crushing it. The finger was amputated. | |||||
2015-05-19 | Friendswood | Texas | Kroger Store #744 | BODY SYSTEMS | Bodily conditions, n.e.c. |
An employee had a seizure and fell to the floor, hitting and lacerating his head. He was hospitalized on May 19, 2015. |