DateCityStateEmployerBody PartEvent
2021-11-12LamesaTxPunkin Center Gins IncMultiple arm locationsCaught 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.
2021-10-30LamesaTxUS Agricultural Marketing ServiceFingertip(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.
2020-10-03LamesaTxDean Hagler LtdMultiple body partsIgnition 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.
2020-01-09LamesaTexasAdvanced Mustang Energy Services LPMultiple body partsStruck 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.
2019-06-13Mesa Verde National ParkColoradoNational Park ServiceHip(s)Fall from pedal cycle
An employee was riding a bike to go on patrol. As he was coming around the corner, a gust of wind began to blow off his hat. He used his right hand to keep his hat on and accidentally hit the front brake with his left hand. He then went over the handlebars and fractured the top of his left hip at the socket. He was hospitalized.
2018-08-07MesaArizonaU.S. POSTAL SERVICENonclassifiableOther animal bites, nonvenomous
An employee was delivering mail to a box mounted next to a customer's door when a dog pushed the door open and jumped on the employee, biting him.
2018-07-19LamesaTexasRES America Construction Inc.BODY SYSTEMSExposure 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.
2018-01-10LamesaTexasKing 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.
2017-10-09LamesaTexasWS Energy Services, LLCFinger(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.
2017-09-20LamesaTexasPeak 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.
2017-04-03MesaArizonaU.S. Forest Service-Tonto National Park-Mesa Ranger StationBODY SYSTEMSExposure to environmental heat
An employee became ill after participating in physical fitness exercise. He experienced cramping and nausea due to heat and dehydration.
2016-09-19La MesaTexasGraycoBODY SYSTEMSExposure to environmental heat
An employee finished work at the end of the day and as he was walking to his truck he began vomiting and feeling light headed possibly due to heat stress.
2016-06-16MesaArizonaU.S. POSTAL SERVICE A&DCUpper arm(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
An employee was delivering a package to a residence. She held the package over a wrought iron gate with her right hand then stuck her left arm through the bars of the gate to lower the package to the ground. The gate opened electronically and the employee's upper left arm was caught and fractured in the gate.
2016-02-13MesaColoradoPowderhorn Mountain ResortBrainFall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was testing the jumps and features of the terrain park, lost control of the snowboard, and fell sustaining severe head trauma.
2015-11-02LamesaTexasKing 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.
2015-03-14Battlement MesaColoradoBOS SOLUTIONS, INC.Hand(s)Caught in running equipment or machinery
An employee on an oil rig had his left hand amputated by a rock crusher while dislodging rocks from the machine. Lockout procedures were not followed at the time.
2015-02-03LamesaTexasKing-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.