Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-09-08	Garland	Tx	Cosmax NBT USA, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was adjusting an encapsulating tabulating machine press. The machine activated and came down on the employee's right hand, amputating the middle fingertip.
2021-08-22	Garland	Tx	Mauser Packaging Solutions	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was adjusting the belt on a machine when their finger became caught between the belt and the pulley. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger.
2021-08-09	Garland	Tx	Osburn Trucking, LLC.	Foot (feet)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was exiting a tool truck when he slipped off the access stairs and fell out of the truck. His left foot was fractured.
2021-08-02	Garland	Tx	First Place Foods	Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
An employee had an allergic reaction to the apron they wore. The employee developed a neck rash and was hospitalized.
2021-07-28	Garland	Tx	Henry Company LLC	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was trying to put a roll of roofing that had fallen off a pallet back onto the pallet when the palletizer gate crushed the employee's chest, resulting in broken ribs.
2021-07-16	Garland	Tx	MICA Corporation	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was trying to determine what was preventing an auger bit from setting in a Kelly bar when his finger was caught in a pinch point in the Kelly bar. He suffered a fingertip amputation.
2021-07-01	Garland	Tx	CPC LOGISTICS INC.	Ankle(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
A driver was opening the back door of a trailer when product fell and broke their left ankle.
2021-06-29	Garland	Tx	Brinker International	Fingertip(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
An employee was using a knife to cut produce in the kitchen and amputated a fingertip.
2021-06-18	Garland	Tx	LMMM Dallas #23	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
An employee was cutting chicken with a meat saw. The saw cut the employee's left thumb, causing an amputation.
2021-05-26	Garland	Tx	INTERCERAMIC INC.	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a dryer kiln when an alarm went off indicating that one of the two limit switches of the centering device control was not functioning properly. In order to reach the centering device control limit switch, the employee used a rod and kneeled down stretching his body/hand forward between the dryer exit and a column of an unloader machine. The employee's body was caught between the exiting tile cart and the column of the unloader machine resulting in fractured ribs.
2021-05-21	Garland	Tx	General Dynamics	Fingertip(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was operating a CNC lathe. After machining a part, the employee went to open the lathe doors and his right middle finger was caught between the first and second accordion doors causing a partial fingertip amputation.
2021-04-24	Garland	Tx	STAR PLUS INC	Arm(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was reaching for filling inside a mixer. The auger caught his hand and pulled his arm in. He suffered lacerations and a broken arm.
2021-04-07	Garland	Tx	Marking Sysems, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
The employee was printing labels at the printing machine when the product shifted. The employee was adjusting the product and sustained an amputation to the fingertip.
2021-04-01	Garland	Tx	Daktronics Inc	Lumbar region	Other fall to lower level
An employee was descending an extension ladder when they fell, resulting in a fractured L1 vertebrae.
2021-03-30	Garland	Tx	Pleasant Valley Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center	Elbow(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping
An employee tripped and fell while walking back from a dumpster. She landed on the concrete and suffered a broken elbow.
2021-03-22	Garland	Tx	Zobele USA Inc.	Ankle(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was climbing up a fixed ladder attached to a tank when she fell from the ladder and suffered a broken ankle, resulting in hospitalization.
2021-03-10	Garland	Tx	Daisy Brand, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee was working on a carousel when his left pinky finger became caught in a chain and sprocket, resulting in amputation.
2020-10-05	Garland	Tx	Collier Metal Specialties LTD	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was using a 4-foot shear to trim strips of cardboard when his left pinky finger was caught under the hold bar of the machine and crushed. The employee suffered an amputation injury.
2020-09-10	Garland	Tx	INTERCERAMIC INC.	Pelvis	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was pushing a tile cart that was on an automated track into a dryer. The employee got caught between two carts and was struck by a cart. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.
2020-09-03	Garland	Tx	Red River Framing, LLC	Hand(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
An employee was framing using a nail gun. The nail gun fractured bones in his right hand.
2020-08-11	Garland	Tx	UPS Freight	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was assisting with moving cargo that was blocking the path at a customer's location. The customer was driving a forklift to move a pallet. While positioning cargo with a strap, the pallet shifted and the employee's fingers were caught between the strap and the pallet. Two fingertips were amputated.
2020-08-07	Garland	Tx	Par Fore LLC	Face	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
An employee was struck in the face with a golf club while walking behind a golfer, leading to hospitalization.
2020-07-09	Garland	Texas	INTERCERAMIC INC.	Multiple body parts	Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
An employee was cleaning the top of a 19-foot tank. The top gave way and he fell to the bottom, suffering fractures to a lower-back vertebra and four toes on the right foot.
2020-06-18	Garland	Texas	JELD-WEN, Inc.	Skull	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was repairing a CNC router machine when the machine cycled and his head was pinched. The employee sustained a fractured skull.
2020-06-10	Garland	Texas	La Fabrica, LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was removing dough and attempting to clear a photo eye on a dough-dividing machine that was malfunctioning when the employee's right hand was caught in a shear point, resulting in the amputation of three fingers.
2020-06-03	Garland	Texas	BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc.	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Other fall to lower level
Two employees were in a scissor lift surveying storm damage on a roof panel. One of the employees fell from the lift cage to the concrete below and fractured their back.
2020-05-06	Garland	Texas	Marking Systems Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
An employee was at the loading dock ready to unload a truck. The employee manually picked up the lift dock plate with the assistance of the delivery driver. The delivery driver released too soon, which caused the plate to land on the employee's right pinky and ring fingers. Part of the pinky finger was amputated during the incident.
2020-03-11	Garland	Texas	Cosmax NBT USA, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was clearing a jam in the cutter blades of a jelly machine. The blades amputated the employee's ring and middle fingertips.
2020-02-24	Garland	Texas	General Packaging Corporation	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was unloading palletized scrap metal from the bed of a bobtail truck using a pallet jack. The pallet of scrap metal started to fall over the edge at the end of the truck causing the pallet jack to raise up and crush the employee's right index finger between it and the scrap metal. The fingertip was amputated.
2020-02-05	Garland	Texas	Napa Autoparts	Brain	Fall on same level
An employee fell while retrieving a part from an aisle and struck his head on the floor, losing consciousness.
2019-08-30	Garland	Texas	Daisy Brand	Multiple back regions	Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
An employee was investigating an issue with a clean in place (CIP) system that cleans pipes. He removed the strainer and disconnected the pump. The pump had pressure behind it and hot water/caustic cleaning chemical burned him on his upper and lower back, requiring hospitalization.
2019-08-21	Garland	Texas	England Products Company	Brain	Other fall to lower level
A driver was on his trailer handling a tarp when he slipped and fell to the ground sustaining a head injury.
2019-08-04	Garland	Texas	Sherwin-Williams Manufacturing Co	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
Approximately six hours into his shift, an employee was sweating profusely and came into the air-conditioned quality control lab to cool down. The employee became ill, lost consciousness, and was hospitalized with heat exhaustion.
2019-07-29	Garland	Texas	Stewart Stainless Supply, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
An employee was unloading a truck of metal. The metal began falling off the truck, and a piece caught the employee's left hand against the bed of the truck, injuring the ring and little fingers. The little finger was medically amputated.
2019-05-23	Garland	Texas	Penske Truck Leasing, LLC	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was putting a license plate onto the front of a truck when the truck ran over him and drug him into the wash bay. He was hospitalized with lacerations and a puncture to the face, lacerations to the arms, part of the ear cut off, and multiple internal injuries.
2019-05-08	Garland	Texas	Qualtex Industries, Inc.	Hip(s)	Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
An employee was painting from a scissor lift and fell 30 feet between the platform and the middle guardrail to the ground below. The employee sustained a fractured hip. The employee's harness was not tied off to the equipment at the time of the incident.
2019-04-17	Garland	Texas	K & K Stone, LP	Lower leg(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee who was taking apart shelving slipped and fell off a beam. The employee fell approximately 4 feet to the concrete ground, suffering a fractured tibia and fibula.
2019-04-17	Garland	Texas	IFS Industries, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee using an air nozzle to blow out a grinder sustained a finger amputation when the grinder energized and the shredding wheel pulled the air nozzle and the employee's hand toward the wheel.
2019-03-07	Garland	Texas	Kroger Store #557	Hip(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was pushing a shopping cart when she tripped on an anti-theft alarm post at an entrance doorway. She fell, breaking her left hip. She was hospitalized.
2019-02-17	Garland	Texas	FIESTA MART, L.L.C.	Wrist(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was consolidating two pallets (on the second tier of some industrial shelving) into one, using an 8-foot ladder. While trying to get back onto the ladder, he fell to the concrete floor, breaking his right wrist.
2019-02-11	Garland	Texas	Ecolab	Toes(s), toenail(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
A forklift was backing out of a pick location after doing some work on a raw material container. While in reverse, the lift struck another employee in the back. This forced the employee's foot into an open end on a drum lifting device. The pressure compressed his steel toe boot and fractured toes on his left foot.
2018-08-23	Garland	Texas	Preload LLC	Ankle(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee was using a forklift to load a truck. The forklift ran over the employee's foot, fracturing the right ankle.
2018-06-05	Garland	Texas	Wilson Plywood & Door	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
On June 5, 2018, an employee was making moldings with a shaper. His left hand was caught in the shaper, and his left index and middle fingers were amputated.
2018-05-30	Garland	Texas	Northern Tool	Brain	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
An employee put blocks on an 18-wheeler trailer and was climbing down when he fell approximately 6-8 feet and hit the concrete floor with his head, requiring hospitalization.
2018-05-25	Garland	Texas	FIESTA MART, L.L.C.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
An employee was cutting fish when the blade sliced off the pad of his left middle finger.
2018-05-25	Garland	Texas	Innovel Solutions	Knee(s)	Other fall to lower level
An employee was walking down stairs when he fell, landing on the concrete below. He suffered detached patellar tendons on both knees and was hospitalized.
2018-05-24	Garland	Texas	GUARDIAN PACKAGING INDUSTRIES LP	Fingertip(s)	Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
An employee was fabricating a honeycomb part on a table saw and contacted the blade resulting in amputation of the tip of his right thumb and a laceration to the underside of his middle finger.
2018-03-01	Garland	Texas	The Buferd Company	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was using a belt sander to sharpen a rod when his hand was caught between the sander and the table, resulting in an amputation to his left middle finger's first digit.
2018-02-20	Garland	Texas	Stericycle, Inc.	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was on the ground level manually lifting the dock plate to sit on a trailer. The dock leveler was a mechanical chain driven dock leveler that would not raise completely due to a mechanical issue with the tensioner. As the employee lifted the dock plate, he was pinned between the dock plate and the trailer resulting in broken ribs and a lacerated spleen.
2018-02-19	Garland	Texas	WhiteStar Logistics	Foot (feet)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
An employee's right foot was run over by a forklift that was backing up, requiring surgery.
2018-02-15	Garland	Texas	General Dynamics	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was preparing items for the fabrication process and caught a finger between the bin that held the parts and the forks of the forklift resulting in an amputation injury.
2018-01-14	Garland	Texas	Packaging Corporation of America	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was pushing a stack of boxes that became stuck on a conveyor belt when the employee's right ring finger was caught and amputated between the belt and pulley.
2018-01-08	Garland	Texas	MAPEI CORPORATION	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Employees were in the process of draining material from a mixer through its pneumatically actuated ball valve, which is approximately 3 inches in size and located at the bottom of the mixer. The ball valve was actuated, but material did not flow. The injured employee was trying to un-clog the ball valve when it actuated and amputated the employee's left middle fingertip.
2017-08-08	Garland	Texas	Silver Line Building Products, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was changing heat paper when the employee's finger got caught in a clamp that holds the heat paper. The employee's right ring fingertip was amputated.
2017-05-15	Garland	Texas	M & M Manufactoring	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
An employee was being trained on how to operate a shear machine when the shear caught and amputated his left middle fingertip and nail.
2017-01-23	Garland	Texas	Henry Company LLC	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was using a pipe threading machine to attach a four-way coupling onto a threaded steel pipe. The employee used a pipe wrench to hold the coupling in place. When the pipe wrench was released from the coupling, the foot pedal was engaged and the pipe wrench came down and crushed the employee's fingertip, amputating it.
2016-09-21	Garland	Texas	R & B Roofing	Face	Fall on same level due to tripping
An employee was carrying a bucket of hot asphalt when he tripped. The hot asphalt splashed on and burned his face, requiring hospitalization.
2016-09-13	Garland	Texas	Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning the filling machine and emptying it of liquid. She then attempted to see if there was any remaining liquid. Her left index finger was inside a quarter-sized hole where a piston was when the machine activated, causing the piston to move and amputate approximately 1/8" of her left index fingertip. The machine's air source was connected at the time of the incident.
2016-08-18	Garland	Texas	Discovery Senior Living	Knee(s)	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee slipped and fell on a wet floor while going to get water and injured her left knee.
2016-07-28	Garland	Texas	US Foods	Foot (feet)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
An employee was operating a pallet jack when he ran into a pallet. His foot was crushed between the pallet and the pallet jack.
2016-06-27	Garland	Texas	Employee Solutions	Heel(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
An employee was operating a reach truck when his foot was caught between the reach truck and a beam, injuring his left heel.
2016-06-17	Garland	Texas	JELD-WEN, INC.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was placing interior doors on a paint booth conveyor when the employee's shirt became caught in the conveyor. When the employee tried to remove the shirt, the conveyor caught, fractured, and partially amputated the employee's finger.
2016-06-16	Garland	Texas	UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to environmental heat
An employee was riding to a mail delivery point when the employee began to suffer from heat illness.
2016-02-13	Garland	Texas	MAPEI CORPORATION	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was fixing a boomerang machine caster. A support fell and pinched the employee's right index finger between the floor and the machine resulting in an amputation injury.
2016-01-14	Garland	Texas	Kroger Texas L.P.	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was manually pulling down the gate on a cardboard baler when the gate crushed the employee's left index fingertip.
2015-12-21	Garland	Texas	Texas Eco Services, Inc.	Knee(s)	Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
An employee using a sledgehammer to break up concrete struck his knee. The employee was later hospitalized for an infection.
2015-10-13	Garland	Texas	General Dynamics Ordinance And Tactical Systems Inc	Thoracic region	Fall on same level due to tripping
An employee was performing maintenance on a horizontal press. The employee tripped and struck his head on a metal die causing a fracture to the 5th vertebrae.
2015-09-14	Garland	Texas	Hatfield Acoustical Drywall	Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Struck by object or equipment
The employee was performing framing operations when a piece of steel angle struck the employee's head/neck.
2015-07-09	Garland	Texas	Fortress Iron, LP	Toes(s), toenail(s)	Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area
An employee's foot got run over by a forklift, requiring the amputation of one toe and hospitalization.
2015-06-21	Garland	Texas	Whiteline Express, Ltd.	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level
A truck driver fell as he was getting into or out of the driver's side of his truck. The employee was hospitalized with numerous bodily injuries.
2015-06-13	Garland	Texas	Stericycle Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was removing a rod that holds the contacts inside of a metal box when his finger got caught between the rod and the box, amputating his right thumb.
2015-05-21	Garland	Texas	VALSPAR CORPORATION	Ankle(s) and leg(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee checking bulk tankers on a trailer platform fell approximately 3 feet while stepping down. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured tibia and fibula and a dislocated ankle.
2015-04-25	Garland	Texas	M&M Manufacturing Company	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee sustained an amputation to the right middle finger while performing work on a press brake.
2015-04-10	Garland	Texas	Lonestar Plastics Inc.	Arm(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee's arm was fractured after getting caught by a Gloucester bag machine's shuttle.
2015-02-02	Garland	Texas	Dee Brown Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
The employee was injured while setting a piece of cast stone. His hand got pinched between two pieces of stone.
2015-01-27	Garland	Texas	Kraft Foods	Fingertip(s)	Contact with objects and equipment
Employee lost a fingertip during preventative maintenance operations of a conveyor belt.