| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-03 | Nacogdoches | Tx | Christinas Meat Market, LTD. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a meat bandsaw. The saw cut the employee's fingertip, resulting in an amputation. | |||||
| 2019-09-11 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Longview Bridge and Road, Ltd. | Multiple body parts | Struck by object or equipment |
| Three employees were disassembling a lattice boom crane. One of the employees took a pin out of the crane by hitting it with a sledgehammer. A section of the boom then struck the employee on his right side, fracturing his clavicle, ribs, and femur. | |||||
| 2019-07-05 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Wingate Architectural Millworks Co. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a beam saw to cut cabinet parts. The clamp of the saw came down and amputated the tips of the employee's left ring and middle fingers. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-03-19 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrim?s Pride Corporation | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was walking across a crosswalk in a breast deboning department with a knife in his hand. He lost his balance and the knife punctured his chest and lung. | |||||
| 2019-03-04 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrim?s Pride Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was picking up a basket of product from the floor. The segmenter blade in a wing separator machine amputated his left middle and ring fingers and part of his little finger. | |||||
| 2019-01-24 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Tyson Food Inc. | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was standing on a catwalk, helping unload bone meal from a truck in a receiving area. While trying to address a jam, the employee fell from the catwalk down the side of the truck, landing about 10 feet below and suffering a closed displaced fracture of the left patella. | |||||
| 2018-08-01 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Carrizo Wood Products, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was placing 33-inch bolts of wood into a three-head trim saw with two blades in operation. The employee reached into the saw to adjust a crooked bolt; the saw severed his left index and middle fingers at the middle joint. | |||||
| 2018-07-17 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrim's Pride Corporation | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was holding a knife while putting on his personal protective equipment (PPE) when his PPE fell on the ground. As he bent down to pick it up, the knife punctured his abdomen. | |||||
| 2017-02-09 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Packer Sanitation Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
| An employee was beginning to do a pre-operational inspection on equipment. She was visually inspecting a running tail cutter when she noticed some debris in the wheel. She put on her glove and attempted to clear the machine of debris. When she did, her glove was caught by the equipment, which then amputated her right index fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-07-26 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| Two employees were clearing a tree that had fallen on a utility pole in order to put the pole back in service. A limb from the tree broke off and fell onto the two employees. The first employee suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung. The second employee suffered a broken hip, broken ribs, and a punctured lung. Both employees were hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-07-19 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrims Pride | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate |
| An employee was leaving the evisceration break room when the door started to close and her right middle finger was pinched in the door jam resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
| 2016-06-28 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrims Pride | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On June 28, 2016, at approximately 8:45 PM, an employee was operating a machine when his arm contacted the shackle wheel guide bar on the equipment, puncturing his right forearm. | |||||
| 2016-05-12 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrims Pride | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was pulling tenders off of chickens as they passed her work station. As she stepped off her platform (9.5 inches), she slipped or tripped and fell to the ground in a seated position, injuring her back. | |||||
| 2016-02-11 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Nibco, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was changing the jaws on a CNC lathe when the jaw hydraulic clamps were actuated by the foot control. His right index fingertip was amputated above the first joint between the jaws and the new part. | |||||
| 2016-02-04 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrim's Pride | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| On 2/4/2016 at approximately 3:15 AM, an employee fell approximately four feet while climbing down a ladder and fractured a hip. | |||||
| 2015-08-12 | Nacogdoches | Texas | American Timber & Steel Company, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to repair a chain conveyor that pulls fence posts from one area of the facility to another. The employee used the emergency stop to shut the conveyor down. The machine wasn't locked out and tagged. At some point another employee turned the conveyor back on while the maintenance employee still had his hand on the conveyor chain. The employee lost his whole middle finger and the tip of his left pointer finger. | |||||
| 2015-06-17 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Pilgrims Pride | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee, operating a pallet jack, was walking with the jack and exiting a room. While exiting, the employee's hand was pinched between the wall and the handle of the pallet jack, amputating the tip of his left pinky finger. | |||||
| 2015-03-26 | Nacogdoches | Texas | Willbros T&D Services | Multiple body parts | Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee on an elevated aerial lift was attempting to hang a dead-end structure on a pole. The wire he was holding contacted energized wires (7200 V), shocking the employee. He was hospitalized with burns to his right shoulder and the skin on his stomach. | |||||