Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-06-25 | Kerens | Texas | Southland Contracting, Inc. | Multiple face locations | Struck by discharged or flying object |
An employee was attempting to remove a metal wedge from a tall tunnel boring machine when pressure from the equipment caused the wedge to strike the employee's face, injuring the right cheek and nose. | |||||
2018-06-06 | Kerens | West Virgini | Kokosing Construction, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
On June 6, 2018, at approximately 7:15 a.m. an employee was removing the operator's seat from an off-road dump truck to perform maintenance on the seat's air ride suspension. While removing the seat from the cab, the employee lost his footing and fell 6.5 feet to the ground. The employee suffered compression fractures to multiple vertebra and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-02-11 | Kerens | Texas | U.S. Postal Service | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping |
Employee was delivering mail. When walking from one delivery point to the next, the employee tripped and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized due to a lacerated spleen. |