Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-02-25 | South Houston | Texas | Joe's Quality Welding and Fab. | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was welding a piece of 36" cutter pipe on a welding table. When the table was moved, the pipe fell onto the employee's knee, fracturing his tibia. He then fell from his stool and suffered a laceration to the side of his head. | |||||
2016-07-13 | South Houston | Texas | CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric | Multiple body parts | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment |
An employee was working a trouble call for a low wire. He was working off a 25 foot pole when it broke and fell over. The employee fell to the ground while tied off to the pole and suffered a fracture in the upper left arm above the elbow and a hip fracture. | |||||
2015-04-18 | South Houston | Texas | CST Covers | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was installing batten bars onto the sheeting panel during the installation of an aluminum dump. His safety harness rope got caught in the aluminum panel and while he was trying to free it, he fell roughly 20 feet to the ground. |