Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-22 | Magnolia | Ar | HIXSON LUMBER SALES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was unjamming a board in a planer machine. The machine's roller crushed his right hand, breaking the wrist and amputating a finger. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-02-01 | Magnolia | Ar | Albemarle Corporation | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
An employee was making his rounds and checking equipment when the wet ground underneath him gave way. He fell in a hole that was about 1.5 feet deep and contained hot water and steam condensate. The employee was hospitalized with burns to both lower legs and ankles. | |||||
2020-08-14 | Magnolia | Tx | Magnolia International LLC | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was installing a roof on top of a newly constructed water tank. The employee fell 16 feet through the roof to the steel surface below, suffering a head injury, a broken pelvis, and a broken vertebra. | |||||
2020-05-18 | Magnolia | Texas | Precision Land Clearing, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was adjusting a bellypan conveyor belt when his right arm was caught by and pulled into the moving conveyor belt, trapping his arm and causing severe damage to the right arm muscle. | |||||
2020-01-10 | Magnolia | Texas | Gregory Pile Driving, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was helping the operator remove an auger bit from a drilling rig. During the removal, his left hand was crushed between the head of the auger bit and outer kelly resulting in amputation of the pinky finger. | |||||
2019-07-31 | Magnolia | Texas | Williams Brothers Construction Co., Inc | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
While an employee was removing a soffit support jack, the cushion block on the bottom of the soffit fell and smashed the ends of his right middle and ring fingers. He sustained an amputation of the right ring fingertip and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-07-03 | Magnolia | Texas | LINCOLN MANUFACTURING INC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
An employee was manually rolling pipe on a pipe rack when his right thumb was crushed between the pipe and rack, resulting in a partial amputation of the skin and a bone fracture on the top digit of his right thumb. | |||||
2019-06-16 | Magnolia | Arkansas | Production Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An oil rig floor hand was connecting elevators to a lifting sub. When the elevators were lifted, the floor hand's right middle fingertip was crushed between the elevators and the lifting sub. The fingertip was surgically amputated. | |||||
2019-06-09 | Magnolia | Texas | HEB | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting meat with a bandsaw when the saw amputated his right little fingertip, which was reattached at the hospital. | |||||
2019-05-15 | Magnolia | Texas | WILLIAMS BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was rigging and walking around a construction site when he became ill and required hospitalization for heat exhaustion. | |||||
2019-03-09 | Magnolia | Texas | Jose Alfredo Lopez | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
At about 11:20 a.m. on March 9, 2019, an employee and his employer were working on the roof of a new construction structure. They were installing paper in the roof when both slipped and fell to the concrete floor. The employee suffered massive bleeding from the head and severe bruises on his left shoulder. | |||||
2019-01-25 | Magnolia | Texas | Williams Brothers Construction Co., Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
A swivel snagged on a Kelly bar. An employee was trying to un-swivel the wire rope while the swivel was turning. The wire rope was winded up and when the tension was released it caught the employee's left hand resulting in the partial amputation of a finger. | |||||
2018-08-16 | Magnolia | Texas | Kroger#389 | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee fell to the floor while mopping it, breaking his right hip. | |||||
2018-06-05 | Magnolia | Mississippi | International Paper Company | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee just finished installing a new conveyor belt on the system and was tracking the belt to make sure it was installed properly. The employee lost his balance and his left leg was pinned between the roller and the belt causing a fracture to the lower leg. | |||||
2018-04-25 | Magnolia | Texas | Mid-South Electric Cooperative Association | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was pulling a wire while walking backward when the wire came loose. The employee then fell over a tree limb and landed on his back, breaking three ribs and suffering a collapsed lung. | |||||
2018-04-04 | Magnolia | Arkansas | Albemarle Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was sliding a mechanical seal/sleeve onto a shaft. The shaft has a small groove with sharp edges. The employee's hand was on the shaft with his finger in the groove. When the employee slid the mechanical seal/sleeve on the groove, it amputated his right index fingertip. | |||||
2018-02-28 | Magnolia | Texas | Oilfield Steel Supply, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was operating a saw to cut an alloy steel bar when he attempted to pull a piece out from the saw. The saw blade then cut his finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2017-08-07 | Magnolia | Mississippi | Magnolia Lumber Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee helped a coworker clear a jam on a stacker. The employee's hand was still on the equipment when it was restarted and his left thumb was partially amputated. | |||||
2017-02-27 | Magnolia | Texas | Edgar Moreno | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
On February 27, 2017, at approximately 12:40 PM, an employee was assembling a scaffold and fell from the scaffold. The employee was hospitalized for a herniated disc. | |||||
2017-02-22 | Magnolia | Mississippi | WEYERHAEUSER | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was helping a maintenance crew put hammers back on the rotors of a hammer mill. The employee was positioning the rotor while a coworker used a bar to lift it. The rotor rotated downward while being lifted, and the employee's hand was caught in a pinch point between the key stop and frame of the rotor. The employee's left index fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2017-02-22 | Magnolia | Mississippi | Croft, LLC | Brain | Fall through surface or existing opening 26 to 30 feet |
An employee was on the roof preparing to replace old skylights in the truck shop building when he stepped through an unguarded skylight and fell approximately 30 feet to the concrete ground, suffering head trauma. | |||||
2016-05-16 | Magnolia | Texas | CHIEF FIRE SYSTEMS | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was attempting to tighten bolts on a sprinkler system used for fire suppression when a gasket ruptured, causing water under pressure to flow out and strike him. He then fell 16.5 feet from his ladder to the concrete floor below. He suffered facial scrapes, an orbital bone fracture above the left eye, a left shoulder fracture, a left rib fracture, a sacrum bone fracture on the left side, a collapsed lung on the left side, and a loss of consciousness. | |||||
2016-05-14 | Magnolia | Mississippi | Weyerhaeuser, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
Two maintenance employees were working to replace carriage arms on a stacker machine. After they dislodged the pins that held the two carriage arms in place, the arms did not swing free. An employee standing on a support beam struck the right-side carriage arm with a hammer to free it. The arms struck an employee, fracturing the employee's left-foot metatarsal bone. | |||||
2016-03-19 | Magnolia | Texas | Ramco Erectors, Inc. | Head and neck | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was installing metal decking when he fell while trying to grab a piece of sheet metal that was elevated by a forklift. He fell approximately 15 feet to a dirt surface and was hospitalized with head and neck trauma. | |||||
2015-07-23 | Magnolia | Arkansas | Anthony Oak Flooring, Inc. | Arm(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee shut off the rough knot saw. When he began to exit the area, his right arm got caught in the blade, amputating his right arm above the wrist. | |||||
2015-06-27 | Magnolia | Mississippi | J.D. Hines Trucking, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was loading sawdust onto a live bottom trailer using a small yard dog that he hooked to the trailer. The trailer got stuck in a hole and turned onto the left hand side, and the employee sustained an injury to his back, fractured ribs, an elbow wound that required surgery, and a concussion. | |||||
2015-06-07 | Magnolia | Texas | Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was shocked by 480 volts when his left arm made contact with an energized blower/vacuum unit while removing water from under the blower. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-05-03 | Magnolia | Arkansas | HIXSON LUMBER SALES, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cutting boards and making sticks when a board got jammed in the saw. The employee tried to unjam the board and upon removing the jammed board the conveyor to the machine became activated. The employee's right ring finger was amputated. |