| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-12 | Lamesa | Tx | Punkin Center Gins Inc | Multiple arm locations | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was on top of a battery condenser. The equipment caught his left arm, degloving it and breaking it in several places. | |||||
| 2021-10-30 | Lamesa | Tx | US Agricultural Marketing Service | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a shredder. The vacuum on the shredder sucked the employee's finger into the blades, which amputated the tip of the employee's right middle finger. | |||||
| 2020-10-03 | Lamesa | Tx | Dean Hagler Ltd | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids |
| An employee was operating a buffer inside the electrical room to buff paint thinner onto the floor. The resulting vapor found an ignition source and an explosion occurred. The employee sustained burns to 43% of his body. | |||||
| 2020-01-09 | Lamesa | Texas | Advanced Mustang Energy Services LP | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| The injured employee parked the vacuum truck on the SW end of the pulling unit. Another employee used the winch line on the pulling unit to grab a pipe. He wrapped the winch line around the vacuum truck's bumper tow pin and back up around the pipe to just below half-way up the pipe. The pipe began to bow in the middle. The pipe gave way and hit the injured employee on the left side, stomach, and back knocking the employee to the ground. | |||||
| 2018-07-19 | Lamesa | Texas | RES America Construction Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was performing manual labor to build a solar farm outside when he began feeling unwell and experienced severe cramps in his stomach, legs, neck, jaw, and hands. He was hospitalized for dehydration and kidney malfunction due to heat stress. | |||||
| 2018-01-10 | Lamesa | Texas | King Mesa, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to wipe lint out of a lint cleaner when his right index fingertip was amputated. The lint cleaner had not completely cycled through at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-10-09 | Lamesa | Texas | WS Energy Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| During rig-down operations, an employee's left hand was caught between a hydraulic torque wrench and a flange, amputating his thumb from the mid-knuckle to the tip. | |||||
| 2017-09-20 | Lamesa | Texas | Peak Completion Technologies, Inc. | Elbow(s) and arms(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| Employees were running packers and had just finished a job. The injured employee was kneeling down on the left knee on the under floor (floor that was six feet off the ground) when a sudden burst of pressure and flow back struck the injured employee's right side dislocating an elbow, breaking the ulna and causing various abrasions and bruises. | |||||
| 2015-11-02 | Lamesa | Texas | King Mesa Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was cleaning around a lint cleaner saw. The employee's sleeve got caught in the saw resulting in the amputation of the left middle finger. | |||||
| 2015-02-03 | Lamesa | Texas | King-Mesa Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A worker was cleaning the lint cleaner before the machine came to a complete stop. The worker's glove was caught on the saw pulling her right hand into the machine. | |||||