Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-02-11 | San Benito | Texas | Chapa Quiroga, L.L.C. | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee entered a silo (tank) to clean the remainder of the grain from it and handle the sweeper machine. While the other sweepers were operating, he stepped back and his foot went inside the sweeper. The sweeper machine caught his boot first and then his foot, causing an open wound and broken bone. | |||||
2017-09-28 | San Benito | Texas | AGE Industries, Ltd. | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was standing at the end of a jumbo press, which had a flat roller holding 200-pound boxes. The roller with the boxes ran over and crushed the employee's left foot. | |||||
2017-03-01 | San Benito | Texas | Wright Tree Service, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
An employee cutting trees around a service line received multiple bee stings and was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-02-11 | San Benito | Texas | Firestone Stores of Brownsville Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was trying to center a vehicle on a lift ramp by moving a tire rim when his left middle finger was caught and amputated between the tire rim and the caliper. | |||||
2016-08-01 | San Benito | Texas | Reef Industries, Inc. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
A winding shaft on the slitter machine was cutting larger rolls into smaller rolls when an employee noticed there was a wrinkle in the material. When he tried to correct the wrinkle, his left arm was caught between the winder and the material, breaking it. The machine was running at the time of the incident. | |||||
2015-07-07 | San Benito | Texas | Henkels & McCoy | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
On 7/7/15, an employee began cramping and felt dehydrated. He went back to an office location and the cramping worsened. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-01-13 | San Benito | Texas | AGE INDUSTRIES LTD. | Arm(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Employee was struck by an avalanche of waxed corrugated paper resulting in an in-patient hospitalization and compound fracture to employee's left arm. |