| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-19 | Silsbee | Tx | Walmart, Inc. | Arm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee tripped over a portable wall partition and fell to the ground, suffering a head injury and a broken arm that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2021-06-10 | Silsbee | Tx | Wooden Pallets, LTD. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee shut off a planer machine and lifted the door to free a jammed board. The centrifugal force of the cutter head was still moving and when he pulled the board back, the cutter head caught his right hand, resulting in four finger amputations and a laceration to the thumb. | |||||
| 2021-02-05 | Silsbee | Tx | Wooden Pallets, LTD. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was stenciling the side of pallets. His thumb was caught between a pallet and a bar as a pallet was being lowered by the automated stacking machine. The employee sustained an amputation to the right thumb above the knuckle. | |||||
| 2020-04-15 | Silsbee | Texas | Wooden Pallets, LTD. | Head | Struck by discharged object or substance |
| An employee was reaching under a nail table where nail guns are kept when he struck the handle of a nail gun with his head and it discharged a nail into the back of his head. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-08-23 | Silsbee | Texas | Apache Products, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee operating a resaw attempted to pull a stick from a chain driving the saw. The chain caught his glove, pulling his right hand into the sprocket and chain and amputating his right index fingertip. The chain was unguarded at the time. | |||||
| 2017-07-13 | Silsbee | Texas | Wooden Pallets Ltd. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| An employee was using a saw to cut blocks when his right hand contacted the blade, amputating three fingers and pinching his thumb. | |||||
| 2017-05-14 | Silsbee | Texas | AT&T | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing a ladder to check an aerial internet terminal. The ladder was against a telephone pole and the employee was on his way up to tie a safety strap around the pole and top of the ladder. The ladder slipped when the employee was more than halfway up, causing him and the ladder to fall to the ground. He suffered a broken right leg just above the ankle. | |||||
| 2017-04-27 | Silsbee | Texas | Wooden Pallets Ltd. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was tightening bolts on the back of a new blade for a wood chipper machine with an impact wrench when the employee's finger became caught between the blade and the washer on the back of the blade. The employee sustained amputation of the left index fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-02-14 | Silsbee | Texas | Westrock | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was threading a paper roll that was not moving. She went to the front of the roll to grab the tail. As she did so, her foot bumped the foot pedal and actuated the paper roll. The rolling mechanism then started up and her hand was caught in the middle and struck by the paper roll. Her left index, middle, and ring fingers were smashed, requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2015-02-19 | Silsbee | Texas | Wooden Pallets, Ltd. | Multiple head locations | Struck against stationary object or equipment while rising |
| An employee was cleaning up underneath a conveyor and got sawdust in his eyes. He also struck his head when reacting to the sawdust. He required overnight hospitalization. | |||||