Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-15 | Richardson | Tx | State Farm Insurance | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
An employee was moving boxes of mail on a loading dock. The employee tripped on a dock plate and fell to the concrete floor, suffering a broken left hip. She was hospitalized and underwent surgery. | |||||
2020-04-13 | Richardson | Texas | PCI Construction Inc. | Multiple body parts | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was in an excavation about 15 feet deep, probing with a probe bar to find an existing sewer pipe. Part of a step fell and hit him on the knee, causing him to fall. He suffered injuries to his knee and two left-side ribs. | |||||
2019-06-03 | Richardson | Texas | Binswanger Glass | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was cutting a piece of aluminum with a chop saw, which caused an amputation to his left index finger. | |||||
2019-06-03 | Richardson | Texas | AT&T Services Corp | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity |
Employee received an electrical shock while pulling cable from a customer's attic. | |||||
2019-05-17 | Richardson | Texas | Toyota of Richardson | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was checking a wheel bearing noise by spinning the tire and listening with a stethoscope when his right hand slipped into the rim and it caught his fingertip. As a result, he suffered an amputation to the right index finger from below the nail to the top of the first knuckle. | |||||
2019-03-29 | Richardson | Texas | EJ Construction Drywall | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell while coming down a ladder, dislocating his arm. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-03-11 | Richardson | Texas | Hull Associates | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from an 8-foot step ladder, suffering a broken right lower leg. | |||||
2019-01-12 | Richardson | Texas | The Kroger Company | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting meat with a bone saw and lacerated the tip of his left middle finger resulting in a partial amputation. | |||||
2018-09-07 | Richardson | Texas | Shermco Industries, Inc. | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee had set down an electrical breaker box inside a motor control center he was preparing to replace the breaker in. He turned to walk away and an electrical arc flashed out of the open door of the cabinet, burning his palms and wrist and causing a slight burn to his right cheek. | |||||
2018-04-11 | Richardson | Texas | ATT | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was descending an extension ladder when it began to slide. He fell approximately 10 to 12 feet to the ground, breaking his hip. The ladder was not secured at the time of the incident. | |||||
2018-03-28 | Richardson | Texas | Entech Sales & Service, Inc. | Wrist(s) and elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was using an 8-foot fiberglass A-frame step ladder to access the ceiling. When he went to descend the ladder, it slipped. This startled the employee, who lost his balance and fell to the floor below. He fractured his left elbow and right wrist, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2018-01-23 | Richardson | Texas | Zachry Construction Corp. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person |
An employee was screwing a mechanical bar into rebar in concrete but was having trouble threading the bars. He used a drill to try to get the bar to go in, and caught the glove of another employee in the drill. This caused the injured employee's left hand to spin around breaking his left pinky and index fingers and dislocating his ring and middle fingers. | |||||
2017-06-28 | Richardson | Texas | Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was working at a customer's home performing installation work when he felt sick and was hospitalized for heat stress. | |||||
2017-05-25 | Richardson | Texas | GG&S construction | Ankle(s) | Jump from collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was dismantling a one-tier scaffold and put all the boards to one side. It started to fall and as he tried to dismount the scaffold a board caught his foot and fractured the right ankle. | |||||
2017-05-25 | Richardson | Texas | TD Industries | Wrist(s) | Injured by handheld object or equipment |
An employee was working on a 16-inch stainless steel duct work. He was putting a coupling inside the duct and lacerated his wrist above his glove. | |||||
2017-05-01 | Richardson | Texas | CEC Companies | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was reaching through a 4-inch hole to drill a pilot hole into an electrical panel when his left finger touched the trigger on the drill and turned it on. The drill then lacerated the top of his left hand. | |||||
2017-03-15 | Richardson | Texas | United Chester Industries | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet |
An employee was working on top of the roof installing drains and fell approximately 25-30 feet to the ground breaking both legs and ankles and displacing a hip. | |||||
2017-01-29 | Richardson | Texas | Great Lakes Aerial Maintenance and Construction Company Inc | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was about 13' up a cell tower in a spider basket taking steel off of the tower for new reinforcement. The employee fell and sustained lower back fractures. The employee was not tied off at the time. | |||||
2016-09-26 | Richardson | Texas | Trident Metals | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c. |
An employee was stepping off a side loader when the machine struck him, fracturing his sternum and ribs. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-07-18 | Richardson | Texas | U.S. Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was hospitalized for heat stress. | |||||
2016-06-28 | Richardson | Texas | Swift Staffing LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting foam with a disc saw when he contacted the blade, injuring his left middle fingertip. His fingertip had to be surgically amputated. The saw was unguarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
2016-04-26 | Richardson | Texas | Optex Systems Inc. | Hand(s) and wrist(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was operating a machine. The employee contacted the machine blade and lacerated the right hand/wrist. | |||||
2015-10-12 | Richardson | Texas | Turner Construction CO | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
An employee was removing a sticky matt in front of an elevator when he was stung by a wasp inside the building. | |||||
2015-08-14 | Richardson | Texas | General Packaging Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was putting foam beneath a die cutter machine when the machine came down, crushing and amputating his left index finger. | |||||
2015-02-27 | Richardson | Texas | Lute Riley Honda | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee fell in the parking lot due to ice on the walking surface. |