| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-21 | Seabrook | Tx | Gulf Winds International, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was in a warehouse, positioning dunnage in a container for incoming 1,400-pound plywood bundles. A bundle pinned his left leg, breaking the femur. | |||||
| 2021-06-30 | Seabrook | Nh | Will-Mor Manufacturing, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was setting up a CNC machine for machining metal, using an overhead crane to lower a template (angle iron) onto the machine table. As the employee was lowering the template, he noticed metal shavings on the table. He rested the edge of the template on the table while he cleaned it. When he started to lower the template again, his left hand was on the top of the template to guide it. The template slipped and swung forward catching his left hand between the edge of the machine and the | |||||
| 2021-05-26 | Seabrook | Tx | Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. | Heel(s) | Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| A driver was inspecting an empty container for damage. While the driver was inside the container, a stacker operator started lifting the container, which was still attached to the chassis with four twist locks. The driver, upon feeling movement, jumped approximately 6 feet out of the container onto the concrete ground and broke his heel in two places. | |||||
| 2021-04-30 | Seabrook | Tx | Kiwo Inc | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was spraying down the shaft and blade of a mixer. The employee became stuck to the shaft, which was still sticky, and was pulled in and spun around. The employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-01-17 | Seabrook | Tx | TERMINAL LINK TEXAS, LLC | Skull | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
| An employee was using a lashing pole to remove a twist lock from the top of a container on a vessel. The twist lock fell and struck the employee's hard hat. The employee suffered a fractured skull and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-08-30 | Seabrook | Tx | Terminal Link Texas | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee slipped on the last step while walking down stairs, landing on the ground and suffering an injured right knee and a broken pelvis. | |||||
| 2019-09-05 | Seabrook | Texas | Mammoet USA Inc. | Ear(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
| An employee was operating controls to steer and level a trailer. A tire on the trailer made contact with the curb and exploded with a loud pop. The employee sustained ringing in the ear and reduced hearing. | |||||
| 2019-07-29 | Seabrook | Texas | ConGlobal Industries, LLC | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was performing maintenance activities from an A-frame ladder when he fell from the ladder to a lower level, breaking his right arm. | |||||
| 2019-05-26 | Seabrook | Texas | Houston Terminal, LLC | Lower leg(s) | Fall on water vehicle |
| An employee was trying to dislodge a container lock on a vessel when he fell from a catwalk to the deck surface. The employee was hospitalized with a compound fracture to the lower right leg. | |||||
| 2019-05-14 | Seabrook | New Jersey | Seabrook Brothers & Sons, Inc. | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was cleaning a flo freezer. He was on the conveyor belts between two rakes and got caught by the rake behind him. The employee suffered a puncture wound to his left thigh and injury to a right knee ligament. | |||||
| 2019-05-06 | Seabrook | Texas | Specialty Tank Service | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet |
| An employee was dismantling an engineered scaffold and fell approximately 57 feet. The employee was hospitalized for compound fractures to his legs and ankles and two fractured ribs. | |||||
| 2019-03-19 | Seabrook | Texas | CERES GULF, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was under a crane in his truck. The crane picked up the reefer container the employee's truck was hauling. The container was still locked onto the employee's truck, which was lifted about 1 foot off the ground with the employee inside. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-03-09 | Seabrook | Texas | CERES GULF INC. | Brain | Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway |
| A truck driver was parked and waiting outside on the back platform of his truck. The truck was rear-ended by another truck, and the employee fell down on his empty trailer bed, suffering a head injury. | |||||
| 2019-01-29 | Seabrook | Texas | Terminal Link Texas | Eye(s) | Water vehicle incident, n.e.c. |
| A lasher employee was injured by a fallen lasher rod that was approximately 8-10 feet in length and 1 1/2 inches in diameter. A second lasher employee was removing a container lasher rod on a top tier rack about 20 feet above ground level on a cargo vessel while the injured employee was working on the middle rack approximately 10 feet below the second lasher employee. The lasher rod popped out of the container corner casting and the second employee's hand and fell striking the injured employee o | |||||
| 2019-01-21 | Seabrook | Texas | Ceres Gulf, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was under a wharf crane resetting a water side twist lock. The crane's spread bar and its load of containers shifted and crushed the employee's fingers, causing an amputation. | |||||
| 2018-08-28 | Seabrook | New Hampshir | NexDine, LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee suffered heat exhaustion while cooking over an outside grill, becoming nauseated and pale. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2018-08-08 | Seabrook | Texas | Terminal Link Texas | Fingertip(s) | Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle |
| An employee was in a man basket at a terminal unloading a rubber tired gantry crane. He was taking the pin off the crane shackle when his left thumb was caught between the shackle, resulting in a partial amputation to the thumb tip. | |||||
| 2018-07-03 | Seabrook | Texas | Cooper/Ports America, LLC | Hand(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| While stripping a container, an employee signaled to boom down and the forklift extension became caught on bracing material. When he went to retrieve the strap, the forklift extension slipped off the bracing material, having a spring effect that crushed his left hand. | |||||
| 2018-06-29 | Seabrook | New Hampshir | US Foods, Inc. | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a pallet jack and got their foot caught between the jack and a rack guard resulting in multiple toe amputations. | |||||
| 2018-06-27 | Seabrook | Texas | Polyone Corporation | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was using a scraping tool (located on the mixer's door) to remove resin from the bottom of the mixer when the door of the machine closed on the employee's arm pulling his arm into the drop area. The employee was admitted to the hospital with a fractured radius and second degree burns to the arm. | |||||
| 2018-06-17 | Seabrook | New Hampshir | US Foods, Inc. | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee was walking backwards in front of his pallet jack when he tripped on a nearby pallet. He fell towards the floor and grabbed the drive handle of his pallet jack, causing the pallet jack to release its brake and drive forward. His right ankle and foot were crushed between the pallet jack and a pallet. | |||||
| 2018-06-06 | Seabrook | Texas | Tarantino Properties, Inc. | Forearm(s) | Injured by object breaking in hand |
| An employee was carrying a toilet bowl to the dumpster for disposal. It slipped from the edge of the dumpster and shattered. The employee was hospitalized for lacerations to his right forearm. | |||||
| 2018-05-16 | Seabrook | Texas | Satellite Logistics Group | Foot(feet) and leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee drove a forklift over a shrink wrap machine, then got off the forklift to fix the machine. The forklift rolled into the employee, breaking his right foot and leg. The forklift was not in park at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-04-24 | Seabrook | New Hampshir | US Foods, Inc. | Foot (feet) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was driving a reach machine from the cooler dock to the dry dock carrying approximately 14 pallets. As he was driving towards the fast roll-up door between the cooler dock and the dry dock, he turned his reach machine to the left. The reach machine then headed toward a yellow bollard that protects the fast roll-up door. Worrying he was going to strike the yellow bollard, he attempted to stop the collision using his foot. His left foot was then caught and severely crushed between the | |||||
| 2017-10-11 | Seabrook | Texas | CERES GULF INC. | Groin | Overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee was attempting to open a large warehouse door when he pulled a groin muscle, requiring hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2017-08-09 | Seabrook | New Hampshir | Corium, Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee suffered a fingertip amputation while repairing isolated machinery. | |||||
| 2016-08-23 | Seabrook | Texas | McCarthy Building Company | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was picking up trash at the site. At the end of the day, he started having cramps and not feeling well. He was hospitalized overnight for dehydration. | |||||
| 2015-10-16 | Seabrook | Texas | LBC Houston LT | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was clearing a pipe line using nitrogen to pressure the line. The employee disconnected the nitrogen line, which was not clear or de-pressured at the time. Product sprayed out on the employee, causing first and second degree burns to the left side of the employee's head, the left arm, and both legs from the knees down. | |||||
| 2015-09-16 | Seabrook | Texas | TERMINAL LINK TEXAS | Multiple trunk locations | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was trying to retrieve a twist lock with a pole. The twist lock fell. As he tried to get away he tripped and fell. He was taken to the hospital with pain in the chest and abdomen. | |||||
| 2015-03-26 | Seabrook | New Hampshir | EIC, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee's fingers got caught in a grease pump gearbox. The employee's right index fingertip was later amputated. | |||||
| 2015-03-11 | Seabrook | Texas | Williams Brothers Construction Company, Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
| The injured employee fell from a highway bridge that was under construction on the state road. He was working in an area where two beams met when he fell approximately 20 feet and landed on a toolbox that was on the back of a welding truck. His safety line was unhooked at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-02-15 | Seabrook | Texas | Stericycle Environmental Solutions | Lower leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| A Stericycle employee was labeling 55 gallon drums and a yard employee on a forklift was carrying palettes of fruit. The yard employee struck the Stericycle employee and pinned him between the palettes of fruit and the 55 gallon drums. The accident resulted in a fracture just above the employee's right ankle. | |||||
| 2015-01-13 | Seabrook | Texas | Ceres Gulf Incorporated | Nonclassifiable | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| Employee was loading cargo in a chassis. While he was exiting the container, the chassis rolled away from the warehouse dock. The forklift forks fell to the ground between the dock and the chassis and pinned him underneath. The employee was pinned between the forks and the ground. He was freed by the paramedics and transferred to Methodist Hospital downtown upon his request. | |||||