| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-29 | Pearland | Tx | BOYER, INC. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was struck in the chest by an auger machine as it was being lifted. The employee was knocked to the ground and he sustained a head injury and a fractured rib. | |||||
| 2021-10-14 | Pearland | Tx | Sunstate Equipment | Ankle(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| At about 11:30 a.m. on October 14, 2021, an employee was guiding a forklift as it loaded 16-foot metal shoring plates (weighing 720 pounds each) onto the back of a truck. One of the plates began to slide off the forks of the forklift and struck the employee on the back of the leg, resulting in a fractured ankle. | |||||
| 2021-09-07 | Pearl Harbor | Hi | Department of the Navy | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| The injured employee was working in a two-person team conducting troubleshooting and repair of an onboard boat engine. The engine started and the injured employee's right index fingertip was amputated. The cowling guards had been removed to provide access to the engine components. | |||||
| 2021-08-25 | Pearl River | Ny | Interstate Waste Service | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was on top of a 30-yard roll-off box that was loaded with pallets, trying to remove the pallets from the sides so that he could tarp the box. As he tried to dislodge a pallet that was sticking up out of the top of the box, it suddenly came free. He stumbled backward, then fell off the box to the ground, suffering a cut on the left side of the head and a concussion. | |||||
| 2021-08-21 | Pearl Harbor | Hi | International Marine & Industrial Applicators LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was doing housekeeping work with a 150-horsepower industrial vacuum. The vacuum sucked in a piece of plastic, then sucked in the employee's right arm as the employee tried to remove the plastic. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to the arm. | |||||
| 2021-08-13 | Pearland | Tx | Central Lighting & Energy, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was installing an HVAC unit while on a 4-foot ladder when they lost their balance and fell, hitting the back of their head on the ground and resulting in a head injury. | |||||
| 2021-05-05 | Pearl Harbor | Hi | Serco Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee became dehydrated while laying cables in a ship. The employee stopped sweating and began vomiting. | |||||
| 2020-09-30 | Pearl City | Il | Pearl City Elevator, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working from an 8-foot stepladder, preparing a piece of plastic conduit to be glued. The spreader brace bowed, causing a rivet to fall. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a broken left tibia. | |||||
| 2020-09-22 | Pearl River | La | Capstone Logistics | Lower leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a pallet jack when the jack struck a metal storage rack and the employee's left calf was lacerated. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
| 2020-09-17 | Pearl Harbor | Hi | Department of the Navy | Fingertip(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was collecting road cones from the back of truck that had a hydraulic lift gate when his fingers got in the pinch point between the gate and truck bed, leading to an amputation of his middle and ring fingertips. | |||||
| 2020-07-18 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Capstone Logistics, LLC | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was removing an electric pallet jack from the equipment room when the pallet jack crushed his foot against the wall. The employee's left foot was amputated at the hospital. | |||||
| 2020-07-09 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. | Heel(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| A pallet jack ran over an employee's left heel, causing a fracture and a laceration. | |||||
| 2020-06-05 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | Propulsion Controls Engineering | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| While welding with a wire fed welder, an employee stood up, lost his balance, and his hand caught the hot wire tip on the welder. The employee was hospitalized with a swollen and burned index finger. | |||||
| 2020-03-07 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment |
| An employee was breaking down storage racks when their right pinky finger was struck by a long-handled sledgehammer. The finger was smashed between the rack and the hammer and required a partial amputation at the hospital. | |||||
| 2020-02-04 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | Amentum | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was doing maintenance on ventilation fans. A fan belt pulled his left hand toward a pulley, where the tip of his middle finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2020-01-31 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was riding a pallet jack and stopped to pick up his jacket that had fallen off the machine. As the employee stepped off the machine and reached down to retrieve his jacket, the operation controls were triggered and the pallet ran over his left foot. The employee sustained lacerations to the left leg and crushed toes. | |||||
| 2019-08-30 | Pearland | Texas | Tip Top Sheet Metal Inc | Brain | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| On August 30, 2019, four employees were working from the top of a commercial building, removing the old roof and installing a new roof. One of them fell through a flush-mounted fiberglass skylight, landing on the concrete floor about 12 feet below. He suffered major head trauma and was hospitalized. Fall protection was being worn, but the safety lanyard was not tied off, at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-08-22 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD & IMF | Brain | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs |
| An employee was walking up metal stairs when he slipped, fell, and hit his head on the stairs. He was knocked unconscious and suffered a head laceration and concussion. | |||||
| 2019-06-25 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | BAE Systems Hawaii Shipyards | Multiple body parts | Water vehicle incident, n.e.c. |
| An employee was opening a 150-pound 5-foot by 3-foot metal hatch on a ship while standing on a 6-stair inclined stairway. The hatch fell on the employee and fractured his wrist and T6 vertebra. | |||||
| 2019-06-18 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | Truston Technologies Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was moving a buoy with a forklift when he attempted to move a piece of wood by the buoy. The buoy then rolled and caught his left index finger, resulting in the amputation of 2/3 of the finger. | |||||
| 2019-03-22 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers | Multiple body parts | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| A forklift struck a scissor lift, causing the employee inside the scissor lift to fall. The employee suffered a facial fracture and a broken right collarbone. | |||||
| 2019-03-09 | Pearland | Texas | Joslin Construction Texas, LLC. | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was using a 6-foot breaker bar to demolish an old concrete sidewalk when the concrete slipped off the excavator forks, causing the breaker bar to pop up. Concrete hit the employee in the chin and Adam's apple area, lacerating his neck and knocking him unconscious. | |||||
| 2019-02-06 | Pearland | Texas | ERMC, LLC | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was removing a storefront sign using an 8-foot step ladder. While descending the ladder, the employee slipped and fell backwards, hitting the sidewalk with the back of his head. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-02-01 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Capstone Logistics, LLC | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was driving a pallet jack down an aisle when it turned and pinned him to a rack resulting in a fractured leg/ankle. | |||||
| 2019-01-23 | Pearl | Mississippi | Comcast Corporation | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was about 10 feet up a ladder in a parking lot, preparing to run cable through a hole drilled in a wall. The ladder's feet lost traction on the wet concrete of the parking lot, and the ladder slid down the wall to the ground. The employee fell, suffering a laceration to his chin, two broken fingers on the left hand, a broken left elbow, a broken right arm and elbow, and broken teeth. | |||||
| 2019-01-23 | Pearl | Mississippi | Lansing Building Products, Inc. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was throwing trash into a dumpster when he slipped and fell onto the paved driveway below, breaking his ribs and tearing his kidney. | |||||
| 2018-07-30 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | AECOM | Nonclassifiable | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
| An employee fell when a rail broke, landing on the asphalt ground. The employee suffered fractures and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-06-24 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was placing a channel iron inside an automated vise to secure the iron for cutting with a bandsaw. The vise automatically closed while the employee's left ring finger was between it and the channel iron causing an avulsion injury and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2018-05-02 | Pearland | Texas | Packaging Service Co., Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was manually helping a production line lead at a capper machine apply caps to bottles of windshield washer fluid when he noticed that a cap had fallen into the machine's chain and sprocket. He was attempting to remove the cap when the chain and sprocket amputated four of his right fingers. The machine was guarded at the time. | |||||
| 2018-03-25 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers | Ankle(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was reversing a double power industrial truck when his left foot was smashed between a yellow valet bar and the industrial truck. He sustained an opened fracture to his left ankle. | |||||
| 2018-03-20 | Pearland | Texas | Texas Honing, Inc. | Jaw, chin | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a crane and sling to support a part while changing the inserts when one leg of the two-leg sling became hung up on part of the machine. The employee continued to raise the crane, and the unconnected sling leg released and struck his chin, fracturing his mandible. | |||||
| 2018-03-09 | Pearland | Texas | Star Welding & Fabrication, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was cutting a metal beam when the beam shaft fell on his left thumb, requiring a partial surgical amputation. | |||||
| 2018-03-07 | Pearland | Texas | Firestone Complete Auto Care | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a tire machine when the tire dismounting arm struck the employee’s right middle finger, partially amputating the first joint. | |||||
| 2018-02-06 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD & IMF | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| On February 6, 2018, at approximately 6:25 p.m., an employee was installing and aligning deck frames on board a ship when his left index finger was caught between the metal deck plate and frame, resulting in a partial amputation to his fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-08-05 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
| An employee was operating a pallet jack when she ran into a rack/shelving unit. Her left foot was fractured upon impact. | |||||
| 2017-07-18 | Pearland | Texas | Waste Management of Texas, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee suffered from dehydration and heat illness while on a trash collection route. The employee was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
| 2017-07-11 | Pearl | Mississippi | Taylor Smith Consulting LLC | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was collecting household garbage and was walking behind a waste collection truck when an unknown chemical splashed on him as the hopper was being cycled. The chemical burned his ear, jaw, arm, and leg. | |||||
| 2017-06-18 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Asscoiated Wholesale Grocers | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was struck by a dock lift while stepping off a long jack, injuring the left leg. | |||||
| 2017-05-19 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers | Leg(s) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was riding a short jack out of the dairy storage area onto the dock area and collided with an employee who was running a lift driver. The employee suffered a right leg fracture. | |||||
| 2017-04-23 | Pearl | Mississippi | MDR Construction, Inc. | Leg(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
| The injured employee was pushing a tree that was being cut by another employee with a chainsaw. The chainsaw kicked back and struck the injured employee's left leg resulting in a four-inch laceration. | |||||
| 2017-03-30 | Pearl River | Louisiana | AWG Gulf Coast | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was moving product with an electric pallet jack and pinned his left foot under the racking system beam. The left foot was fractured and lacerated. | |||||
| 2017-02-25 | Pearl | Mississippi | PEARL STEEL ERECTORS, INC. | Shoulder(s) and back | Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet |
| An employee stepped into a hole and fell 14 feet while welding on an I-beam, fracturing the right shoulder and tailbone. | |||||
| 2017-01-07 | Pearl | Mississippi | Daily Equipment Company | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped on ice and fell on the sidewalk outside the building. He suffered possible broken ribs. | |||||
| 2016-07-05 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | International Marine & Industrial Applicators, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| Two employees were lowering a part from a mast of a ship. As the employees were lowering the part with a pulley and a tagline, the part got caught in something. The injured employee pulled hard on the tagline, cutting the line and the part fell on his right index finger resulting in amputation of the fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-06-13 | Pearland | Texas | Taylor Smith Consulting, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was outside collecting trash on his route and suffered heat exhaustion. | |||||
| 2016-04-25 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| While he was operating a forklift, an employee's left leg was caught between a guardrail and the forklift, fracturing his left foot. | |||||
| 2015-12-09 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard | Multiple face locations | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was attempting to open the top hatch on a sand blasting pot that was pressurized. The pressure from the tank shot the hatch into his face, fracturing it and knocking his teeth out. | |||||
| 2015-10-15 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers | Foot (feet) | Nonroadway collision with other vehicle |
| An employee was working on the dry grocery side of the warehouse. The employee came around the corner while riding a stand up forklift and ran into the forks of another forklift. A fork from the forklift punctured his foot. | |||||
| 2015-10-14 | Pearl River | Louisiana | Associated Wholesale Grocers | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was selecting cases in the freezer area while driving a long jack. As he stepped off the long jack, he was still holding the accelerator and pinned himself between a rack and the long jack resulting in fractured ribs and a laceration to the lungs. | |||||
| 2015-09-17 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking behind other workers carrying a leaking bag of trash. The employee slipped and fell forward landing on the edge of a platform lift and fracturing four ribs. | |||||
| 2015-09-12 | Pearl | Mississippi | AT&T | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was replacing a telecom connection. The employee fell from an extension ladder and fractured vertebrae. | |||||
| 2015-03-24 | Pearl Harbor | Hawaii | Pono Pacific | Brain | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| Employees were clearing mangroves along the shore on Pearl Harbor. When the cut mangroves were being pulled to shore, the rope broke, and the pulley struck an employee in the head. | |||||
| 2015-03-12 | Pearl | Mississippi | True Blue Inc | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working on the back of a garbage truck and saw a piece of metal. When he reached in to retrieve it, his hand got caught in the compactor. | |||||
| 2015-03-03 | Pearland | Texas | Young & Sons Drywall | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was working on the third deck. As he was using a ladder to come down, he fell and sustained an injury. | |||||