| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-04 | Mesquite | Tx | Ashley Furniture | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was wrapping product as it moved down a conveyor. Her left hand contacted the conveyor; a sensor detected it and caused the conveyor to move. Her hand was caught between the conveyor and the roller, causing multiple fractures to the hand and wrist. | |||||
| 2021-08-04 | Mesquite | Tx | Rainstamp Manufacturing | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a slitter machine when their hand got caught in the machine, resulting in lacerations and amputations to their right hand. | |||||
| 2021-06-14 | Mesquite | Tx | JCPenney | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over a security cord and fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured hip. | |||||
| 2021-06-14 | Mesquite | Tx | UPS | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee was moving packages from a conveyor to a cart. The employee suffered a hernia and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-01-21 | Mesquite | Tx | MORRISON PRODUCTS, INC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was resurfacing a tool on a milling machine. The machine bit caught his right-hand glove and pulled in his ring finger. The finger was amputated at the second knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-08-24 | Mesquite | Tx | Senox Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| While working on a metal slitter machine an employee sustained an amputation to the right index finger and a laceration to the right middle finger. | |||||
| 2020-07-18 | Mesquite | Texas | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE | Forearm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee climbed on a conveyor to unjam a box. While dismounting the conveyor, he was flipped and then fell on his arm. He sustained broken bones in his right forearm. | |||||
| 2020-05-01 | Mesquite | Texas | Benjamin Moore & Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was washing out a paint filling machine. The filler head's automated valve closed on his left middle fingertip. About an inch of the finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-04-20 | Mesquite | Texas | 2M Foundation Drilling, Inc. | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| An employee was standing at the edge of an approximately 48-inch diameter hole that was approximately 18 feet deep. The employee was using a winch cable off the back of a drilling rig with a hook on it, attempting to retrieve a shovel that had fallen into the hole, when he lost his footing and fell approximately 18 feet to the bottom of the hole. He broke his right leg in two places with possible additional injuries to the left leg. | |||||
| 2019-07-25 | Mesquite | Texas | Four Season Building Products | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was operating a punch press when his left middle and index fingers became caught in the press and were crushed. | |||||
| 2018-08-20 | Mesquite | Texas | Fritz Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was de-clumping some material and feeding it through a chute when the chute's auger amputated part of his right index finger. The auger was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-08-14 | Mesquite | Texas | Kapstone Container Corporation | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was picking paper up off the floor when a reversing clamp truck carrying a roll of paper struck the employee. The employee suffered a leg fracture. | |||||
| 2018-05-18 | Mesquite | Texas | Amazon Fulfillment Center | Foot (feet) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee was operating a stand-up forklift when his foot slipped. When he tried to correct himself, his hand came off the steering control and the forklift struck a guardrail. He suffered a foot fracture. | |||||
| 2018-04-02 | Mesquite | Texas | M-Co Construction, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was attempting to remove a pipe from a waterline when the pipe moved and caught his foot, fracturing it. | |||||
| 2018-03-28 | Mesquite | Texas | EmployBridge | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee needed to replace the wheels on a sliding gate so he jacked up the gate with a hydraulic jack and was removing the wheel. The gate slipped off of the jack and lacerated his right ring finger, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-03-01 | Mesquite | Texas | Pep Boys-Manny, Moe, & Jack of Deleware, Inc. a Delaware Corporation | Ankle(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was moving a pallet jack when the employee's ankle was pinned and fractured between a rack system and the pallet jack. | |||||
| 2018-02-23 | Mesquite | Texas | ECS Refining Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was removing large magnets from a piece of equipment and placing them in a box. When the employee placed a magnet over another magnet, the magnets were attracted to each other and suddenly came together amputating the right index fingertip and cutting the middle finger. | |||||
| 2018-02-12 | Mesquite | Texas | Avis Budget Car Rental | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking out of the facility, stepped off the curb, and onto a patch of ice. The employee slipped and fell fracturing a hip. | |||||
| 2018-01-03 | Mesquite | Texas | National Tire & Battery | Leg(s) | Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee was working inside when an outside driver lost control of her vehicle and crashed into the building. The vehicle hit a wall and caused a toolbox to propel into the air and strike the employee, who suffered fractured legs. | |||||
| 2017-09-05 | Mesquite | Texas | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using an extendable conveyor and amputated his left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-08-10 | Mesquite | Texas | Camp Roofing, Ltd. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| An employee working on a carport fell through a damaged section of decking and was hospitalized with a broken kneecap and shoulder. | |||||
| 2017-04-10 | Mesquite | Texas | J.B. Hunt Transport Inc | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On April 10, 2017, approximately 2:00 p.m. an employee was cleaning the belt of a live bottom asphalt trailer when her cleaning device and glove were caught in the belt pulling her in and injuring her right hand and forearm requiring surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-03-27 | Mesquite | Texas | Mesquite Tree Nursing Center | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| After dumping trash in a dumpster, an employee lost her balance and fell, fracturing her hip and requiring overnight hospitalization. | |||||
| 2016-09-20 | Mesquite | Texas | Fritztile | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| A lead person was adjusting the edge grinder. An employee walked to the back of the machine and placed his hand on the end of an adjustment rod sticking out of a pneumatic cylinder. The lead did not realize the employee's hand was on the rod, so he actuated the machine to test his adjustments. The employee's left index finger was then pinched and amputated between the cylinder housing and the rod end stop. | |||||
| 2016-08-29 | Mesquite | Texas | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| The employee had climbed a fixed ladder to a platform in order to clear a jam on a conveyor. While climbing down from the platform, the employee lost their grip and fell off the ladder to the concrete floor. | |||||
| 2016-08-02 | Mesquite | Texas | Advanced Foundation Repair, L.P. | Forearm(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
| An employee was carrying a concrete cap when the cap slipped and struck the employee's left forearm, resulting in an open fracture. | |||||
| 2015-08-13 | Mesquite | Texas | UPS | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was hospitalized with a heat-related illness. | |||||
| 2015-05-01 | Mesquite | Texas | Total Transportation of Mississippi LLC | Wrist(s) and arm(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee got his foot caught in a pallet on the truck that he was moving and fell to the ground breaking his right arm and wrist. | |||||
| 2015-02-20 | Mesquite | Texas | Instaff | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee handling/picking materials from a shelf was hospitalized after falling 6 feet from a step ladder. | |||||
| 2015-01-30 | Mesquite | Texas | UPS | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| An employee was hospitalized after he got his hand caught between the conveyor belt and the T-Plate. | |||||