| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-04 | Hewitt | Texas | FedEx Ground | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee fell approximately 10 feet from the second elevated platform to the first elevated platform of an elevated sort tower and landed on the guard rail resulting in a fracture injury. | |||||
| 2020-05-08 | Hewitt | Texas | Knife River Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On 5/08/2020, at 09:30 AM, an employee was delivering concrete to a construction site and installing the metal chutes on his ready mix truck when his right two middle fingers were pinched between chutes. As a result, he sustained a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation of his right middle finger. | |||||
| 2018-02-12 | Hewitt | Texas | Metals 2 Go | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was adjusting the coolant hose on the vertical band saw when the coolant hose came off. As he reached for hose, his glove got caught on the blade, resulting in amputation of the right index finger. | |||||
| 2017-10-10 | Hewitt | Texas | MJ Lathern Co., Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The injured employee was holding a metal part on a brake press while another employee operated the press. As the press operator hit the brake press pedal, the injured employee's right hand slipped off the metal and was smashed and fractured between the metal part and the press die. | |||||
| 2016-07-13 | Hewitt | Texas | Davis Iron Works | Wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating an angle cutting machine. When the employee tried to remove a piece of metal, the machine began another cycle and the metal plate on the machine struck the employee's wrist causing a severe laceration, severed tendons, and broken bones. | |||||
| 2015-03-25 | Hewitt | Texas | SCHULTZ INDUSTRIES INC. DBA STURDISTEEL | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee's right thumb was amputated while using a table saw to cut aluminum for stadium seating. | |||||