| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-17 | Lake Jackson | Tx | Evoqua Water Technologies | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
| An employee was loosening Allen bolts on a generator system when a seal failed on a line connected to the generator, exposing the employee to leaking chlorine dioxide. | |||||
| 2020-05-24 | Lake Jackson | Texas | Academy Sports + Outdoors | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was loading a gun safe into a customer's vehicle with three other employees. The employee was in the bed of the vehicle when the gun safe slid onto his left middle finger, causing it to be caught between the gun safe and the vehicle. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left middle finger. | |||||
| 2019-08-19 | Lake Jackson | Texas | LEM Construction Company, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was re-positioning a gasket between two steel pipes when a pipe shifted and the employee's left middle finger was caught between the pipes. His left middle finger was amputated at the end. | |||||
| 2019-05-21 | Lake Jackson | Texas | Edward Jones | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was exiting the office space via the rear door when a wind gust pushed a door mat up, causing her to trip on the mat and impact the ground. She fractured her left femur. | |||||
| 2019-05-17 | Lake Jackson | Texas | A-Line E.D.S. Inc. | Arm(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| The injured employee was rigging up a component of a very large transformer to remove it by lifting it off the main transformer body using an all terrain telescoping forklift. The employee was positioned on top of the transformer completing the rigging with lifting hooks when the forklift operator accidentally bumped the joystick causing the boom to drop and catch the injured employee's right arm between the boom and a metal beam. The employee suffered broken bones in the right arm. | |||||
| 2018-08-16 | Lake Jackson | Texas | Coastal Machine and Mechanical | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee had changed a bearing on a fan (air handling unit) and was manually checking (rotating by hand) the tension of a drive belt he had reinstalled when his left hand was pulled between the motor and the drive belt pulley, resulting in a left ring finger amputation. | |||||
| 2018-02-10 | Lake Jackson | Texas | LC Electric | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was working in a power room making temporary power connections on a 480V box when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered second and third degree burns over 60% of his body. | |||||
| 2016-08-06 | Lake Jackson | Texas | Whataburger Restaurants LLC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
| An employee was taking orders at the drive-thru window when she tripped and fell to the tile floor, fracturing her right ankle. | |||||
| 2016-07-19 | Lake Jackson | Texas | Wrap Masters Insulation | BODY SYSTEMS | Indirect exposure to electricity |
| The injured worker was on a scaffold measuring chilling water piping. The electrician turned on the water circulating pump that was hooked onto the chilling water piping. The junction box that the wiring was inside of shorted and the injured worker received an electrical shock. | |||||