| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-15 | Kingwood | Tx | Kingwood Emergency Hospital | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was taking sandbags to an emergency room ambulance bay. He slipped on ice and fell, breaking his left arm. | |||||
| 2020-08-17 | Kingwood | Tx | North Houston Pole Line | Arm(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An employee climbed a wooden pole to remove a downed conductor. The employee's right arm contacted the bottom of the energized switch and received third degree burns. | |||||
| 2020-03-02 | Kingwood | Texas | Wayne Electric, Inc. | Hand(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was moving a UPS cabinet off a pallet using a pallet jack. The pallet buckled and tipped toward the employee, bending his right hand back. He suffered two broken bones in the hand and was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2019-06-20 | Kingwood | Texas | Waste Management | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| A garbage collection crew was on its way to a landfill when one of the employees became ill with cramps and started sweating. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stress and dehydration. | |||||
| 2019-05-10 | Kingwood | West Virgini | Allegheny Wood Products, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| An employee was straightening boards when a board fell and hit the tip of his left little finger, causing a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2019-04-30 | Kingwood | Texas | HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
| An employee tripped and fell while walking on a tile floor. The employee sustained a left hip fracture that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2019-01-08 | Kingwood | West Virgini | Allegheny Wood Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
| On January 8, 2019, an employee was helping move a wooden board along a chain system. The board fell and struck the employee's left little finger, breaking it. | |||||
| 2018-03-29 | Kingwood | Texas | TDIndustries | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was using a fixed ladder to take copper piping to the roof when he missed a rung and fell approximately 6 feet. He was hospitalized with fractures to his neck, back, and pelvis. | |||||
| 2017-08-10 | Kingwood | Texas | Kroger # 310 | Foot (feet) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was standing inside a tractor trailer waiting for the dock plate to connect to the trailer when the dock plate came down on his right foot, lacerating it. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-01-05 | Kingwood | Texas | Commercial State Bank | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slid and fell on wet concrete while walking into the building from the company parking lot, breaking the left ankle and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-03-24 | Kingwood | Texas | Tejas Underground Utilities | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
| A front-end loader bucket on an articulated wheel loader was transferring tools to another part of the work site. The operator of the wheel loader inadvertently released the end loader, which fell on top of and broke an employee's left foot. He was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2016-03-01 | Kingwood | Texas | Kroger #359 | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was slicing meat in the deli for a customer when the employee's hand slipped off the guard and struck the rotating blade, amputating the right thumb tip. | |||||
| 2015-10-24 | Kingwood | Texas | AOC Home Health | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| While working at a private residence, a nurse fell backwards off a porch onto the concrete below. The employee broke her left tibia and dislocated her knee. | |||||
| 2015-02-24 | Kingwood | Texas | Steinmart | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| On 2/24/2015, at approximately 2:00 PM, an employee was injured while restocking in the linen department at a department store. The employee was moving comforters and quilts from the floor to the shelves. The employee's foot got caught on one of the quilts that was on the floor, which caused her to fall onto her right hip. She could not get back up to her feet from that point. The injured employee was taken to Kingwood Hospital for treatment and is awaiting possible hip surgery. | |||||
| 2015-01-29 | Kingwood | Texas | BR BRICK & STONE, L.P. | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| A scaffold board was removed to load mortar onto the scaffold. As the scaffold board was placed back into position, an adjacent scaffold board fell from the third tier, striking an employee in the head. The injured employee was on the ground loading custom bricks into a bucket. He was taken to the hospital and admitted. | |||||
| 2015-01-15 | Kingwood | West Virgini | TMC Transportation, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| Employee fell off of a flatbed tractor trailer bed while strapping down a palletized load. Employee suffered a leg injury and was taken to a local hospital and admitted. | |||||