| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-12 | Galveston | Tx | Consolidated Crane & Rigging, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was flagging as a crane lifted a 15,000 lbs. transformer into a building. The transformer slid off the skates and crushed the employee between the transformer and a structure resulting in multiple fractures. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-06-15 | Galveston | Tx | Ports America | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was standing between two flatbed trailers. He ducked under one of them to avoid falling machinery, and his left hand was caught between the machinery and the trailer. He suffered amputations to the left index, middle, and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2021-02-10 | Galveston | Tx | Savage Services | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was on an elevated platform, turning valves to prepare for cleaning the melter. He lost footing and fell 6 to 8 feet to the main floor. The employee sustained bruised and/or cracked ribs. | |||||
| 2020-09-20 | Galveston | Tx | Randalls Grocery Store | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's fingers were amputated when their hand was caught in the meat tenderizer machine. | |||||
| 2020-09-19 | Galveston | Tx | Savage Services | Cheek(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was removing hot sulfur slugs and sulfur splashed onto his face. The employee sustained a second degree thermal burn on his cheek. | |||||
| 2020-08-24 | Galveston | Tx | Turner Industries Group | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was removing a tarp covering a mechanical fabrication area. The employee was standing on the fourth rung of an 8-foot ladder when he lost his footing and fell to the ground sustaining a broken tibia/fibula. | |||||
| 2020-07-30 | Galveston | Texas | Gulf Copper Dry Dock & Rig Repair | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| On July 30, 2020, an employee became overheated and was hospitalized, suffering from dehydration. | |||||
| 2020-05-19 | Galveston | Texas | Williams Industrial Services, LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Explosion |
| Two employees were installing vent pipe and supports on top of a bulk storage tank. There was an explosion in the tank causing the employee working on the tank roof to fall from the tank to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured shoulder. The second employee was in an aerial lift at the roof line when the tank exploded. The second employee did not fall, but sustained flash burns to the face and arms. | |||||
| 2020-05-18 | Galveston | Texas | Center Point Energy Houston Electric, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was adjusting the plates on an in-ground vehicle lift. As he was sliding the plates, his thumb entered one of the holes in the plate and was pinched, resulting in an amputation to his right thumb tip. | |||||
| 2020-04-27 | Galveston | Texas | Ports America | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An excavator's boom swung and struck two employees. Between them, they suffered a broken collar bone, 15 broken ribs, and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2020-03-11 | Galveston | Texas | Polaris Construction, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee rolled her ankle while walking, felling and sustained fractures to the lower tibia and fibula near the ankle joint. | |||||
| 2020-02-18 | Galveston | Texas | Ports America | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was being lifted in a man basket and tried to hook up a cable to a construction truck bucket. He asked the forklift operator to raise him higher and his finger was pinched between the man basket and a bolt, causing a deep tissue injury that required surgery. | |||||
| 2019-09-10 | Galveston | Texas | Ports America, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
| An employee was using a crane to unload a windmill. As the employee was hooking a safety latch to the corner casting of a windmill, the vessel where the employee was working moved a little, creating tension on the hook. The employee's left ring finger was caught in the safety latch, fractured, and the fingertip was amputated without bone loss. | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Galveston | Texas | SSC Service Solutions | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was repairing a water leak on a pier and fell approximately 15 inches to the ground, suffering a broken femur. | |||||
| 2019-06-18 | Galveston | Texas | Ryan Marine Services, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
| An employee was working 4 to 5 miles offshore on board a utility vessel and helping to retrieve a box core (device that goes to the bottom to scoop sediment) when his fingers were caught in a 24-volt winch, resulting in the partial amputation of his left ring finger. | |||||
| 2019-05-13 | Galveston | Texas | Angel Brothers Enterprises, Ltd | Hip(s) | Slip or trip without fall |
| An employee was standing on top of a string line when he lost his footing, twisted, and dislocated his hip. | |||||
| 2019-05-11 | Galveston | Texas | Del Papa Distributing Company, Inc (Texas City) | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was helping to set up a tent for an event and was holding a metal pole. A strong electrical current struck the metal pole due to a lighting strike. The injured employee had pain in his right arm. | |||||
| 2017-09-22 | Galveston | Texas | Impact Waste, LLC. | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was cutting a piece of pipe when it fell on his left foot. His foot had to be surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2017-08-01 | Galveston | Texas | Archer Daniels Midland Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was hoisting up the scale weight with the help of another employee. The injured employee had a hand on the cable that held the hoist. When the scale weight got near the floor, the employee's right hand was caught in the pulley and the index finger was smashed. The employee's index finger was amputated and the middle finger injured. | |||||
| 2017-04-14 | Galveston | Texas | Taco Cabana | Brain | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee stepped onto a shelf to reach a box when the shelf collapsed. The employee fell backward and the boxes fell on him, striking his forehead. He suffered a concussion. | |||||
| 2016-10-20 | Galveston | Texas | Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corporation | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was working in a tank on a drilling rig when he tripped on a beam and fell, resulting in a broken ankle. | |||||
| 2016-09-22 | Galveston | Texas | Envitech | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was diagnosing equipment that was malfunctioning. He opened an access panel as part of the diagnostic procedure. When he opened the compartment, chemical was released and sprayed into his face, upper body, chest, shoulder area, and back, causing second and third degree chemical burns. | |||||
| 2016-09-01 | Galveston | Texas | Offshore Technical Solutions | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee and a crane operator were preparing to lift a cutter head (tool) into a transport rack. The crane operator picked up the tool and the employee's finger was caught in a pinch point between the tool and the transport rack resulting in the amputation of the right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-06-13 | Galveston | Texas | Ports America, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| At approximately 2:30 p.m., an employee was lashing and unlashing cargo when he became overheated and disoriented. He was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2016-04-18 | Galveston | Texas | Farmers Alloy Fabricating, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was measuring the inside of a metal cone area while on a ladder 30 inches above the floor. The employee was on the top step of the ladder when he and the ladder fell to the side. He fractured his wrist and two ribs. | |||||
| 2015-09-29 | Galveston | Texas | Gufl Copper | Foot (feet) | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
| An employee dropped the plate that he was carrying with a crane. He was pushing the plate with his right foot when he dropped it. He reacted by turning his body quickly, twisting his ankle and fracturing his left foot. The plate did not strike the employee. | |||||
| 2015-09-18 | Galveston | Texas | Champion Technology Services | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| Two tower climbers were running a heavy duty coax cable up to an antenna tower. One employee was on the ground running the cable up to another employee who was approximately 100 feet from the ground. The cable was on a reel and the front end of the cable was cut and live. One of the employees touched it and was shocked. The injured employee received second degree burns on his right arm, third degree burns on his right thumb and minor burns to his knees. | |||||
| 2015-09-01 | Galveston | Texas | Gulf Copper | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Bites and stings |
| An employee dropped his cell phone after parking a golf cart. When he went to pick it up, a snake bit his right index finger. | |||||
| 2015-08-17 | Galveston | Texas | Ports America Texas, Inc. | Brain | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was releasing cargo chains tied around an excavator in a cargo hold on level 1 of the vessel. During that time, some of the latch hooks on the chains became wedged and would not budge. A coworker used a pry bar to help release the chains. The coworker pulled on the pry bar, which slipped from the coworker's grasp and flew towards the injured employee. The pry bar struck the injured employee in the head, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2015-04-23 | Galveston | Texas | KenMor Electric | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was on a 12-foot tall step ladder, closing a junction box that measured 24 x 24 inches. He had placed a strap around the junction box to secure the cover while closing it. He lost his balance because the strap became loose around the junction box and fell approximately 8 feet. | |||||
| 2015-04-18 | Galveston | Texas | Marine Spill Response Corporation | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee and a couple of other guys were removing a 12 inch section of cargo pipe and a 12 inch valve with a crane. When they lifted the section of pipe, the section swung and the valve hit an employee. He fell to the deck (on the same level) and was injured. | |||||
| 2015-01-02 | Galveston | Texas | KEYSTONE CONCRETE PLACEMENT | Multiple body parts | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person |
| Two employees in a scissor lift were wrecking forms, taking forms down, and removing the forms. They lost their grip on the form, which fell and hit an employee walking below on the shoulder, knocking him to the ground. He hit his head on the concrete, causing a wound to the head, a broken collarbone, and a broken rib. | |||||