Machine Injury & Accidents

Date	City	State	Employer	Body Part	Event
2021-10-05	Temple	Tx	Wellington Healthcare, INC	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level
An employee was cutting down a tree branch while on a ladder. The branch fell and struck the ladder, knocking the employee off of it. The employee struck the bumper of a parked vehicle and the ground after falling, resulting in a laceration to the chin and face, as well as four fractured ribs.
2021-07-18	Temple	Tx	Cargill Feed and Nutrition	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was poking material inside a storage bin to get it to flow. The employee fell about 4 feet and struck their ribs on the lid of a conveyor. The employee suffered three broken ribs and was hospitalized, required surgery.
2021-02-04	Temple	Pa	Cobra Anchors Corporation	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a clipping machine when their left hand contacted the die of the machine, resulting in fractures to their thumb and middle finger and an index fingertip amputation.
2020-08-27	Temple	Tx	Baylor Scott & White Health System	Multiple body parts	Fall from collapsing structure or equipment
An employee was standing on a desk when it collapsed. As she fell, her mouth hit a metal bracket from the broken desk. She suffered lacerations to the inside and outside bottom lip, broken teeth, and a broken left foot.
2020-08-17	Temple	Tx	W.W. Cannon, LLC.	Multiple trunk locations	Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
Two employees were changing out a dock leveler's dock plate. While the injured employee was on his hands and knees under the leveler, installing the keeper-pins, a forklift that had been holding up the dock leveler's lip hinge moved back and released the dock plate. The plate fell on the injured employee, breaking most of his ribs, causing internal bleeding, and causing a T-Fracture in his lower back as well as fracture to the upper back.
2020-08-06	Temple	Tx	Miller Springs Materials	Fingertip(s)	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
Two employees were securing a tarp to a dump trailer. The tailgate smashed one employee's left little finger, causing an amputation of the fingertip.
2020-08-05	Temple	Tx	Amos Electric Supply	Brain	Other fall to lower level
An employee came into contact with a battery backup wire while replacing a light fixture. He fell off his ladder to the floor, suffering a head injury.
2020-08-01	Temple	Tx	Eagle Systems, Inc.	Face	Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving
A security guard was escorting a patient to the restroom when the patient attacked him, causing facial bone fractures.
2020-06-20	Temple	Texas	Artcobell Corporation Laminate	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was placing block dividers in-between material on a forklift's forks. The material slipped and smashed the employee's fingers against the forks, resulting in amputation.
2020-05-02	Temple	Texas	HEB, LP	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
An employee was picking up a stack of pallets with an electric jack. His hand was caught between the jack and the warehouse racking, causing a partial amputation of the left ring finger.
2020-04-24	Temple	Pennsylvania	Monterey Mushrooms, Inc	Leg(s)	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
After pulling a pallet jack with a pallet 2 feet away from his workstation, an employee walked backwards and tripped over the pallet, breaking his left leg in two places.
2020-03-14	Temple	Texas	McLane Southwest	Fingertip(s)	Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
An employee was repairing a fuel pole stanchion when his finger was caught between the clamp and the steel pole. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.
2020-02-18	Temple	Texas	Wilsonart LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was asked by a table saw's control panel operator to push back stacked material to be cut through the hold-down bar area. The injured employee hit the E-stop button to push back the material as requested. While his hand was still on the material, the control panel operator hit the cut buttons, causing the hold-down bar to come down on the injured employee's right hand. The employee pulled his right hand out from under the hold-down bar, resulting in an amputation of the right index f
2020-02-11	Temple	Texas	Materials Transportation Company	Hip(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee had just finished painting a metal carriage for battery handling. The employee was pulling the carriage out of a paint booth to put it in a blast oven when it slipped out of the employee's hand and the momentum from pulling it caused the employee to fall to the ground. The employee broke the left hip and was hospitalized.
2020-02-04	Temple	Texas	Scott & White Memorial Hospital	Heart	Intentional injury by other person, n.e.c.
An employee was performing nursing rounds and caregiving activities for patients at the psychiatric unit of the hospital. A patient pulled the fire alarm in an attempt to escape, and threw water on the floor behind him as he was running. The employee ran after the patient, caught him, and brought him back to the unit. The patient became combative and bit the employee's finger and both of them slipped on the water and fell to the floor. Once the patient was secured back in their room, the employe
2020-01-17	Temple	Pennsylvania	Panera LLC (Cafe 6072)	Brain	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was standing on a step stool in the cooler to reach a product when he fell off the step stool and struck his head on a rack in the cooler. He suffered a concussion and strains and sprains to the neck and back, requiring hospitalization.
2020-01-07	Temple	Texas	MooreCo, Inc.	Ankle(s)	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
An employee was descending a 4-foot ladder when he fell to the ground and his legs became twisted in the bottom two rungs. He suffered a fracture to the right ankle that required hospitalization and surgery.
2019-08-28	Temple	Georgia	Builders Specialties, Inc.	Ankle(s)	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
An employee was coming down from a roof, about 9 feet high. The employee fell from a ladder to the ground, suffering a broken ankle.
2019-08-18	Temple	Texas	Walmart Supercenter #746	Lower extremities	Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
An employee was at a register checking out customers. The employee scanned toilet paper and proceeded to grab the hand-held scanner. The employee was walking around the bag carousel to the customer's cart when the employee's foot was caught on the corner of the fixed carousel. The employee tripped, lost balance, and fell to the ground, suffering a lower body fracture and muscle tears.
2019-07-08	Temple	Texas	American Surfacing Materials, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Two employees were checking on a clogged dust collector at a baghouse unit outside a facility. After the bag had been removed, one of the employees tried to unclog the collector. The fan blades amputated the employee's right middle and index fingertips.
2019-07-03	Temple	Texas	McLane Company Inc.	Arm(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
While changing out the belt on a conveyor, an employee was caught in the machine, suffering a broken arm and lacerations.
2019-07-01	Temple	Texas	Materials Transportation Company	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
An employee was disassembling a hydraulic dumper when the carriage assembly came down on his left hand, amputating his middle finger.
2019-06-07	Temple	Texas	TEXAS HYDRAULICS	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a horizontal bandsaw. The clamp amputated his left index finger, about halfway to three-quarters of the way down the finger.
2019-05-08	Temple	Texas	Wilsonart LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Two employees were operating the cut-down saw in the distribution area. While the cut-down saw was in the lowered position, the injured employee was taking measurements. When the saw engaged, the injured employee's finger was caught in the saw guard and partially amputated.
2019-04-23	Temple	Texas	Quality Brickworks	Brain	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
An employee was about to climb down from a scaffold when he fell onto a concrete slab 6 feet below. He landed on his shoulder and head, his hard hat cracking on the ground; he suffered bleeding to the left ear and a concussion, as well as bruising to the left shoulder. He was hospitalized.
2019-03-07	Temple	Texas	Buc-ee's, LTD	Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Fall on same level due to tripping, n.e.c.
An employee tripped while carrying boxes, rolling her ankle and falling. She suffered stomach pains and was hospitalized.
2018-09-17	Temple	Texas	MooreCo, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was using an electric miter saw to cut aluminum extrusion frame parts for a bulletin board cabinet. He began to pull a remnant piece of the extrusion from the saw to place in a recycling barrel. The end of the extrusion inside the saw was grabbed by the spinning saw blade and pulled into the machine. The blade lacerated his right index finger, which was medically amputated between the first and second joints.
2018-08-27	Temple	Texas	McLane Southwest	Ankle(s)	Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
An employee was in a warehouse, using an electric pallet jack to move a pallet. The pallet jack struck and fractured her right ankle.
2018-07-19	Temple	Texas	R & R Ditching Service, Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
An employee was riding in the basket of a bucket truck placing cable from pole to pole. As the truck advanced slowly along the ground, it struck a hole. As the truck moved out of the hole, it rocked and the employee fell from the bucket to the ground. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae and a spinal injury.
2018-05-06	Temple	Pennsylvania	Donna Bella Farms	Foot (feet)	Fall on same level
An employee was pulling a pallet outside when his foot became caught and he fell, breaking his left foot.
2018-05-01	Temple	Texas	U.S. DVA Central Texas Veterans Health Care System	Arm(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was cooking in the kitchen when she bumped into another employee and fell to the ground, breaking her arm.
2018-03-06	Temple	Texas	Pactiv Corporation	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating an extrusion machine when his left hand was caught on a chrome roll in an in-running nip point. Three fingers were amputated.
2018-02-10	Temple	Texas	Wilsonart LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
The injured employee was clearing a paper jam in a machine and had his right hand in the shear area when another employee jogged the machine resulting in amputation of the injured employee's index and middle fingertips and the tip of the nail on the thumb of the right hand.
2017-07-27	Temple	Texas	Meyer-Herod General Industrial Services, LLC	Arm(s)	Struck by other falling powered vehicle
While loading a forklift, an employee sustained a broken arm when the forklift fell on him.
2017-05-09	Temple	Texas	USDA-Agricultural Research Service	Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders	Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
An employee was using a chemical cleaner to clear a restroom drain when he began coughing and having trouble breathing. He was hospitalized with a burned esophagus and lungs and respiratory distress.
2017-05-03	Temple	Pennsylvania	Gaspari Farm Products, Inc	Lower leg(s)	Vehicle or machinery fire
An employee was operating a front-end loader when it caught on fire. The employee jumped off the front-end loader and broke his tibia and fibula.
2017-04-27	Temple	Texas	Danhil containers, Inc.	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee was operating a glue machine when his hand became caught in the chain and sprocket, resulting in lacerations to four fingers and a partial amputation of his pinky finger.
2017-04-20	Temple	Texas	Performance Food Group Inc.	Fingertip(s)	Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
An employee was on a ramp with a dolly when the dolly moved away from him and he fell down. His right hand was then caught between the dolly and the ramp, amputating his middle fingertip with no bone loss.
2017-03-21	Temple	Texas	Lift Truck Supply, Inc.	Multiple lower extremities locations	Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle
An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer when the forklift moved and rolled over the employee's left leg, ankle, and foot, requiring hospitalization.
2017-02-26	Temple	Texas	Performance Food Service	Leg(s)	Fall on same level
An employee fell while pushing a dolly, breaking his leg.
2016-09-30	Temple	Texas	Harbor Freight Tools	Ankle(s)	Fall on same level, n.e.c.
An employee was pulling on a strap that was around a box when the strap broke, causing him to fall to the ground and fracture his right ankle.
2016-07-22	Temple	Texas	Materials Transportation Company	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee's right hand got caught in a rolling machine. The ring, index, and middle fingers were amputated to the 2nd knuckle and the thumb tip was amputated.
2016-05-25	Temple	Texas	Reynolds Consumer Products	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was clearing a jam when his finger was smashed by two rollers. His ring fingertip was surgically amputated.
2016-04-06	Temple	Texas	Wilsonart LLC	Finger(s), fingernail(s)	Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
An employee was participating in powered industrial vehicle training. As the employee was attempting to pick up a table, the wheels on the lift turned sharply. The lift accelerated quickly, causing it to veer to the right. His right pinky finger was pinned and amputated under an adjacent table next to a wall.
2016-02-20	Temple Terrace	Florida	Uncle Fat's Tavern Inc	Nonclassifiable	Stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing
An employee was stabbed by a patron after the bar had closed. There had been an earlier altercation in the bar between the employee and the attacker.
2016-01-15	Temple	Texas	Pactiv Corporation	Fingertip(s)	Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
An employee amputated the tip of his left index finger while working with the winder machine.
2015-09-04	Temple	Pennsylvania	Solid Waste Services Inc.	Brain	Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
On or about September 4, 2015, at 12:09 p.m., an employee was riding on the right rear step of a garbage truck during a right-hand turn. He was knocked off of the step when his shoulder contacted an illegally parked semi-tractor trailer, and he fell onto the street, hitting his head and knocking him unconscious. He was hospitalized for a concussion and subdural hematoma.
2015-06-26	Temple	Texas	Scott & White Memorial Hospital	Fingertip(s)	Struck by object or equipment
An employee was removing shims from a pump motor when a tool slipped and partially amputated the employee's left index fingertip.
2015-05-14	Temple	Texas	MooreCo, Inc.	Multiple upper extremities locations	Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
An employee was cleaning the rollers of a Walco glue applicator and applying cellophane when his sleeve got caught. The machine pulled his right arm into the rollers, causing a degloving injury to the skin on his wrist and shoulder.
2015-04-25	Temple	Pennsylvania	Royal Green, LLC	Fingertip(s)	Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
An employee was helping a customer unload scrap metal at the scrap metal facility in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, when the employee's finger got caught between the tailgate. The employee sustained a left middle finger amputation just below the nail; there was no nerve damage, and the fingertip could not be reattached. The employee was wearing gloves at the time.
2015-03-19	Temple	Texas	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs	BODY SYSTEMS	Direct exposure to electricity
An employee was installing an electrical panel for the new car wash when he was shocked.
2015-03-06	Temple	Texas	Baylor Scott & White Health	Back, including spine, spinal cord	Fall on same level due to slipping
An employee walking across the parking into the hospital slipped and fell on ice, injuring her back.
2015-01-29	Temple	Texas	Quality Brick Works	Nonclassifiable	Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
Worker was working off a 6 ft scaffold that had been erected the day before. He adjusted the scaffold so he could pour concrete and fell. He was admitted to the hospital.
2015-01-27	Temple	Texas	E.R. Carpenter, L.P.	BODY SYSTEMS	Exposure to other harmful substances
Employee opened up a strainer within a processing line that was not de-energized, causing approximately 2000 gallons of TDI to spill out. The employee and two others were sent to the hospital. Two were treated and released, while the employee directly exposed was hospitalized.
2015-01-25	Temple	Texas	Performance Food Group Inc.	Nonclassifiable	Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c.
While lifting a pallet of cases, three cases fell off the pallet. The forklift operator picked up two cases and stacked them on the dash of the standing forklift. When he went to pick up the third case, the other two cases fell over engaging both the dead man's switch and the joystick, causing the forklift to rotate pinning him against an adjacent forklift.
2015-01-14	Temple	Texas	Walmart Distribution Center	Hip(s)	Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
An employee was operating a reach forklift when he struck a pallet that forced him against a compartment of the forklift when it came to an abrupt stop. The employee sustained injuries to the hip area that required an admission to the hospital.