Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-02 | Frisco | Tx | A#1 Air, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening |
An employee was accessing an HVAC unit in an attic. The employee fell through the attic floor to a lower-level floor, suffering three broken ribs and a punctured lung. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-09-10 | Frisco | Tx | Anytime Labor-Dallas, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
A temporary employee was driving a post into the ground using a picket pounder. The post amputated the employee's left index fingertip. | |||||
2021-09-09 | Frisco | Tx | Caliber Holdings Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
An employee's thumb was caught in a radiator fan and lacerated. | |||||
2021-05-11 | Frisco | Tx | Taylor Morrison of Texas, Inc. | Head and trunk | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was in an attic looking for a leak. He fell off a walkway through the attic ceiling, falling about 12-15 feet and suffering cracked ribs, a partially collapsed lung, a concussion, and cuts and bruises. | |||||
2021-05-09 | Frisco | Co | FIRST VEHICLE SERVICES, INC | Multiple head locations | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was repairing a truck-mounted steam cleaner. Steam coils overheated and exploded, causing burns to the employee's face and scalp. | |||||
2021-03-04 | Frisco | Tx | Mich Construction | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
Employees were standing two walls and were connecting them when one of the walls came loose and landed on an employee, resulting in a bruised leg and hip. | |||||
2021-01-18 | Frisco | Tx | The Saxton Group | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was chopping tomatoes when her chef's knife cut off her left thumb tip. | |||||
2020-07-24 | Frisco | Texas | Southwest Sealers Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was working on a boom lift when the equipment started to slowly come down and the basket tilted sideways. As the employee tried to push the basket away from the wall his left hand got caught between the top rail of the basket and the wall resulting in fractures to the thumb, index, and middle fingers. | |||||
2020-06-18 | Frisco | Texas | Austin Bridge and Road | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee assisting with the placement of a deck panel had his finger pinched outside the deck panel. He sustained an amputation of the left index finger. | |||||
2020-04-29 | Frisco | Texas | Wadsworth Golf Construction Company of the Midwest | Multiple pelvic region locations | Excavation or trenching cave-in |
An employee was installing a drainage pipe in a trench when the dirt trench walls collapsed on the employee, who suffered a broken pelvis and hip. | |||||
2020-01-01 | Frisco | Colorado | Copper Mountain, LLC | Knee(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
A ski patrol employee was performing trail checks. The employee's ski caught a patch of ice and the employee fell backwards, suffering a broken left knee. | |||||
2019-09-09 | Frisco | Texas | Southwest Sealers, Inc. | Wrist(s) and elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was walking backwards while installing flashing on a roof. The employee fell approximately 15 feet from the roof and sustained a fractured left elbow and wrist. Fall protection was not worn at the time. | |||||
2019-09-07 | Frisco | Texas | Jesus Ibarra | Face | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee had been conducting work on a scaffold. While descending on the outside of the scaffold, the employee fell approximately 15 feet to the ground. The employee sustained cuts to the face and a knee injury. | |||||
2019-08-21 | Frisco | Texas | Sallaya Construction | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet |
An employee fell 24 feet from a third floor while installing plywood on the exterior of a building. The employee was hospitalized for bruises and contusions. | |||||
2019-08-01 | Frisco | Texas | Nortex Landscape Management, LLC | Brain | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in roadway |
An employee was in the street, using a blower to blow cut grass. A passing car struck the employee, causing a traumatic brain injury, a broken jaw and femur, skin abrasions, and an eye injury requiring surgery. | |||||
2019-07-25 | Frisco | Texas | City Wide Mechanical | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was performing HVAC start-up work when he was found unconscious and was hospitalized for a head injury. | |||||
2019-07-13 | Frisco | Texas | Murray-Ward Contracting | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was moving material using a telehandler. He was on the road, which is elevated, and the right wheels dropped off the embankment. The telehandler rolled over and the employee was hospitalized with broken ribs. | |||||
2019-06-27 | Frisco | Texas | Vasq Sheetmetal LLC | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was on a scaffold and fell approximately 6 feet to ground resulting in a leg injury. | |||||
2019-06-21 | Frisco | Texas | Texas Western Hospitality | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
An employee's left ring finger was caught and crushed in a door frame. | |||||
2019-06-20 | Frisco | Texas | HELLAS CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Lower leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
A low impact collision occurred when a skid steer backed into a buggy. During impact, the injured employee suffered a fractured fibula, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2019-04-24 | Frisco | Texas | Masonry Leasing, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was reaching out the front of a boom lift cab to remove something on the hood of the machine when his leg hit the controls, thus lowering the boom on his fingers at a pinch point. His right ring and pinky fingers were smashed, resulting in medical amputations of the fingertips. | |||||
2019-04-11 | Frisco | Texas | Straight Line Painting | BODY SYSTEMS | Ingestion of harmful substance |
An employee was performing putty work and final painting work when he reached for a water bottle. After drinking from the water bottle he began to vomit. The employee had ingested paint thinner and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-03-20 | Frisco | Texas | Commercial Fireproofing and Insulation | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was working from a 16-foot extension ladder installing insulation. The employee was standing on the seventh step when he fell to the ground level. He received a broken left arm, bit his lip, and suffered bilateral cracked ribs. | |||||
2018-09-24 | Frisco | Texas | Prism Electric | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was troubleshooting a 277-volt light pole and suffered electrical burns to his hand. | |||||
2018-08-23 | Frisco | Texas | Antonio Garciano & Sons Construction | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was installing wire mesh on a second floor, about 20 feet high. He fell, breaking his right arm. A harness was not being worn at the time of the incident, and the employee was outside the area protected by a safety wire. | |||||
2018-08-23 | Frisco | Texas | Medical City Frisco | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
An employee was helping to move a patient to another bed when he suffered severe pain due to a hernia, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-08-15 | Frisco | Texas | Legendary Drywall, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was walking at a residential construction site when he tripped at the front door entry threshold and fell to the ground, breaking a femur. | |||||
2018-06-27 | Frisco | Texas | Lackey & Lackey, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity |
A journeyman electrician was removing wires from a panel. The wire was tied to another cable and when he pulled the wire it pulled the other cable into a bus bar in the gear causing an arc flash and electrical burns. | |||||
2018-06-08 | Frisco | Texas | Top Flight Steel Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
The injured employee was installing the last two pieces of decking to the floor of a mezzanine being built within the warehouse. The employee pushed the decking back so that he would have room to cut it and fell through the exposed hole approximately 14 feet to the concrete floor below. He struck steel framing on the floor and broke his arm. He also suffered lacerations to his forehead. | |||||
2018-05-15 | Frisco | Texas | SOUTHWEST CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a hand held drill to mix concrete when he noticed the mixing pedal was coming loose. He tried to tighten it and his left glove became caught in the mixer, which then amputated his left pinky. The mixer was running at the time. | |||||
2018-04-26 | Frisco | Texas | Results Staffing | Lower leg(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person |
An employee was cleaning the hallway and moving drywall when another employee pulled a piece of drywall from the top. The drywall fell on and injured the left lower leg of the employee who was cleaning. | |||||
2018-03-12 | Frisco | Texas | Thelin Recycling Company, LP | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was performing routine maintenance on a discharge conveyor belt when another employee activated the machine. The employee was then thrown into the moving conveyor, breaking several ribs. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-03-05 | Frisco | Colorado | Powdr - Copper Mountain, LLC | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee fell to the ground while skiing, fracturing the right and left femurs. | |||||
2018-02-06 | Frisco | Texas | Carter & Carter Construction, LLC | Head and trunk | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
An employee was holding a pole and waiting for a forklift to push the pole into the ground. The pin was missing on the forklift forks, allowing them to fall and hit the employee's lip. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a back injury. | |||||
2017-09-26 | Frisco | Texas | David McDavid of Frisco | Ankle(s) | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
An employee was engaged in horseplay and was turning to run when he tore a tendon and broke two bones in his right foot. | |||||
2017-09-23 | Frisco | Texas | Jackson Dawson Communications | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was slicing cucumbers on a mandoline slicer and severed the tip of her right middle finger. | |||||
2017-08-02 | Frisco | Texas | Manuel Beltran | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was prying back some rebar on a grade beam when he fell backwards approximately 6 feet, striking his head on a 2 x 4 piece of lumber. He was hospitalized with a head injury. | |||||
2016-09-07 | Frisco | Texas | DMG Masonry, LTD. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was cutting a concrete form on a window sill using an angle grinder with a cut-off blade. The grinder went through the plywood and struck the concrete, resulting in a kickback that caused the grinder to strike and deeply lacerate the employee's chest. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-07-25 | Frisco | Texas | Austin Bridge and Road | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been working outside on the bridge of a highway when he began to feel unwell. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
2015-12-09 | Frisco | Texas | Kent Co Texas, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
An employee was holding forklift forks in the upright position when a fork fell and crushed the employee's finger. One-third of the employee's finger was amputated at the hospital. | |||||
2015-12-08 | Frisco | Colorado | Spy Optics | Thigh(s) | Other jump to lower level |
An employee was coordinating and participating in a film shoot. The employee performed a jump on a ski hill and landed wrong, breaking the right femur and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2015-12-04 | Frisco | Texas | Wal-Mart #5866 | Pelvis | Fall through surface or existing opening |
While retrieving an item from a trailer, an employee fell through a gap between the dock plate and trailer. One leg fell through first, and she broke her pelvis. | |||||
2015-09-30 | Frisco | Texas | Allied Insulation & Supply, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was loading insulation into an insulation blower machine. The employee's left arm was injured when it got caught in the equipment's metal bars. | |||||
2015-09-22 | Frisco | Texas | WILKS MASONRY | Ankle(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
An employee was using a stand up pallet jack and injured his left ankle when it was caught between a wall and the pallet jack. | |||||
2015-05-17 | Frisco | Texas | Costco Wholesale Corp. | Leg(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
A forklift driver turned off his forklift and dismounted it. The forklift was still coasting and not fully stopped at the time. His left leg got pinned between the forklift and a wine table. | |||||
2015-04-18 | Frisco | Texas | Leland Collier Electric Company Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
A foreman and the employee were in the electric room pulling a cover to test the breaker. The employee reached in to take the shield off and was shocked. | |||||
2015-04-18 | Frisco | Texas | CAPFORM, INC. | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee walking down a plywood ramp that was slick from the rain slipped and fell breaking his leg. | |||||
2015-03-11 | Frisco | Texas | SOUTHWEST INSULATION, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
An employee fell 14 feet through a hole in the floor. The hole was unguarded at the time of the incident. |