Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-05-22 | Sarita | Texas | Renewable Energy Systems Americas, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was rigging the motor on a tower when his right hand was caught in a pinch point, resulting in an open fracture with an amputation of the right middle distal fingertip. | |||||
2018-08-23 | Sarita | Texas | IEA Constructors, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was lifting the tongue of a pull behind mobile light tower when their right ring finger was pinched between the tower's tongue and the ground resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2015-10-19 | Sarita | Texas | Iberdrola Renewables Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
While conducting wind turbine maintenance operations, an employee slipped, striking and bruising his upper right leg on a turbine support structure. | |||||
2015-04-28 | Sarita | Texas | Mesa Southern Well Servicing | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
A third party contractor was nippling up a production tree. The employee was tightening the bull plug and the wrench slipped off causing the employee to lose balance and to fall approximately 5 feet to the ground. | |||||
2015-01-08 | Sarita | Texas | Basic Energy Services, L.P. | Knee(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
Employee was working from the derrick monkey board latching and unlatching tubing. As he was unlatching the elevator that has horns and a locking mechanism, the employee's harness got caught on the horns. The horns pulled the harness and pulled him down causing small fractures in his knees that required surgery. |