Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-07-09 | San Angelo | Tx | 3C Lawn & Landscape | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was removing the bag from a lawn mower. When the employee attempted to clear some grass from the opening, the lawn mower blades made contact with three of the employee's fingers, resulting in amputations. | |||||
2021-05-18 | San Angelo | Tx | Walmart Store 601 | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was opening a freezer door when she lost her grip on the handle and fell to the floor. She suffered a back injury and was hospitalized, possibly requiring surgery. | |||||
2021-02-11 | San Angelo | Tx | ABM TEXAS GENERAL SERVICES, INC. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee was walking in a parking lot when they slipped and fell on black ice, resulting in a broken arm. | |||||
2020-10-12 | San Angelo | Tx | Pecos Street Laundry | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee fell while walking to the back utility room and suffered an ankle injury. | |||||
2020-09-25 | San Angelo | Tx | Cal's Convenience, Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was removing the trailer hitch from a customer's vehicle at the carwash. A second carwash customer pulled up behind the employee and pinned him between the two vehicles. The employee sustained a fractured spine and lacerated liver. | |||||
2020-08-07 | San Angelo | Tx | Pepsi Co | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped and fell over an empty box that was next to a trash can. Her right elbow was shattered and required surgery. | |||||
2020-07-24 | San Angelo | Texas | American Electric Power | Thigh(s) | Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode |
An employee was climbing to fix a transformer that was placed on a trailer when he slipped. His foot got wedged and his left leg was fractured above the knee and required surgery. | |||||
2020-07-14 | San Angelo | Texas | United Parcel Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
A delivery driver had clocked out and gone home after his shift. The employee later called management and informed them he felt ill. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stress and dehydration. | |||||
2020-04-28 | San Angelo | Texas | Dean Hagler Ltd | Nonclassifiable | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was using a lift to paint a ceiling beam when he was caught between the lift and the beam, suffering crushing injuries. | |||||
2020-04-25 | San Angelo | Texas | Ethicon, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning the chain on a foil machine. The chain caught the employee's right glove and amputated the employee's ring and middle fingertips. | |||||
2020-04-06 | San Angelo | Texas | Lone Star Beef Processors, L.P. | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was cleaning his knife at the end of a shift. The knife stabbed his left hand, puncturing his cut-resistant glove and cutting an artery. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-04-06 | San Angelo | Texas | JPD Environmental and Demolition, Inc | Leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was part of a roofing crew that was demolishing a roof. The employee was walking toward the roof ladder when he fell through a section of the roof that had been cut out. He landed on the ground about 18-20 feet below, broke the left leg, and was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-09-16 | San Angelo | Texas | Butch's Rathole and Anchor Service, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was hooking the trailer to a pickup truck. Some of the weight of the trailer came down on the employee's left index finger, crushing it against the hitch ball. The fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2019-01-09 | San Angelo | Texas | W&W-AFCO Steel LLC | Lumbar region | Roadway collision with other vehicle |
Employees were operating/driving a boom lift back to the shop and were crossing a road when a pickup truck struck the lift. One employee was injured and sustained five transverse process fractures and one spinous process fracture in the L2-L4 vertebrae. | |||||
2018-09-12 | San Angelo | Texas | Shannon Medical Center | Knee(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was reaching for an item on a shelf in a storage room when she turned and tripped over the wheel of a portable dialysis machine. She fell to the floor and landed on her left kneecap, breaking it and requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2018-07-24 | San Angelo | Texas | Wilbur L. Anderson, Inc. | Wrist(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was holding a 5-gallon bucket while its lid was being cut off with a bandsaw. The saw lacerated the employee's left wrist. | |||||
2018-06-23 | San Angelo | Texas | Lonestar Beef Processors, L.P. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell on a muddy concrete floor as he was going around a corner, fracturing his left hip. | |||||
2018-06-04 | San Angelo | Texas | Hirschfeld Industries | Hand(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was centering a flange and was struck by a falling clamp resulting in injury to the left hand. | |||||
2018-05-11 | San Angelo | Texas | Robert Kent Construction, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
An employee was operating an off-road vehicle when he lost control of the vehicle and it rolled. He suffered a broken left radial bone and a fractured left foot. | |||||
2018-03-19 | San Angelo | Texas | Northwest Concrete Products | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was climbing into a semi cab when he slipped and rolled his ankle, resulting in a fracture. | |||||
2018-03-08 | San Angelo | Texas | Texas Packing | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Struck by animal |
An employee was moving cows from one pen to another when a cow hit him in the leg. His leg became swollen and his leg/knee tendons were injured, requiring surgery. | |||||
2018-03-02 | San Angelo | Texas | Texas Packing | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was attempting to cut horns off a carcass at a horn removal machine when the machine activated and amputated two of the employee's fingers. | |||||
2018-02-20 | San Angelo | Texas | Texas Packing | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing |
An employee was processing meat when another employee stabbed him in the neck with a knife. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
2017-09-21 | San Angelo | Texas | POINT & PLAY PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | Upper extremities | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, roadway |
An employee was driving an aerial lift over a road and curb when the lift hit a bump or the curb. The employee then bounced out of the basket and was hanging by a harness and lanyard. The employee suffered left arm or wrist injuries, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2017-05-01 | San Angelo | Texas | Eldridge Electric Co. | Hand(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was using a sledgehammer to nail a stake into the ground. When he swung the hammer, it missed the stake and struck his hand, breaking it and requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2017-04-29 | San Angelo | Texas | Lone Star Beef Processors, L.P. | Hip(s) | Struck by animal |
An employee was hit by a bull and sustained a right hip fractured that required surgery and overnight hospitalization. | |||||
2017-01-09 | San Angelo | Texas | Danhil Containers II Ltd. | Hand(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was putting print plates onto the drums of an open machine on site when the drum moved and the employee's hand was caught in the machine. The employee's hand was crushed, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
2016-06-14 | San Angelo | Texas | The Terrill Manufacturing Company Inc. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was powering up a compressor and noticed a leaky hose. When he turned around, the hose popped off and sprayed him in the back, causing second and third degree burns. | |||||
2016-03-24 | San Angelo | Texas | Wal Mart Neighborhood Market | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was working inside a meat freezer when he struck his head. He was hospitalized with internal bleeding. | |||||
2015-12-10 | San Angelo | Texas | LONESTAR FREIGHTLINER GROUP, LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a ladder and injured their back. The employee was hospitalized overnight. | |||||
2015-11-13 | San Angelo | Texas | Republic Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was moving a board inside a trash truck hopper. The blade was moving at the time. The employee's left ring fingertip was amputated between the compactor blade and the side wall of the hopper. | |||||
2015-10-22 | San Angelo | Texas | Hirschfeld Industries | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was handling a squeezer and had his left hand on the roller. When he pressed the controlling panel with his right hand, his left middle finger got caught by the roller on the squeezer resulting in a broken and lacerated finger. | |||||
2015-10-02 | San Angelo | Texas | Lone Star Beef Processors, L.P. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was putting a combo inside the trash compactor. Once the combo was inside, he turned on the trash compactor, but the equipment failed to operate normally. He attempted to adjust the combo, and as soon as the combo was adjusted, the compactor reacted quickly and crushed/amputated his right middle fingertip. | |||||
2015-08-11 | San Angelo | Texas | 4-H Flowback Services, Inc. | Skull | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An industrial power washer exploded sending an employee to the hospital for a fractured skull. | |||||
2015-08-04 | San Angelo | Texas | Hirschfeld Industries | Thigh(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was moving a beam with a crane. He unhooked the beam and was lifting the hook when the hook caught the beam. The beam fell, striking him and breaking his right femur. He sustained a compound fracture to the right femur bone. | |||||
2015-03-03 | San Angelo | Texas | Lonestar Beef Processors, L.P. | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was working in the edible cutting section using a conveyor fed belt saw. His thumb made contact with the saw blade, removing the tip of his left thumb halfway down the thumbnail. |