Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-20 | The Woodlands | Tx | CHI St. Luke's Health The Woodlands Hospital | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure through medical injection |
An employee had an allergic reaction to a vaccine administered at the workplace. | |||||
2020-09-22 | The Woodlands | Tx | The Kroger Company | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was on a one-step ladder stocking shelves. Her foot slipped as she stepped backwards off the step ladder and she fell onto her right knee. Her tibia was fractured. | |||||
2020-02-11 | The Woodlands | Texas | Woodlands Country Club Tournament | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was performing maintenance on a golf cart that was on a jack lift when the cart moved while the employee was working underneath it and fell on the employee. The employee suffered four broken ribs and an air pocket in the lung. The cart was not in park at the time of the incident. | |||||
2019-07-11 | The Woodlands | Texas | Flex-Erect, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was utilizing a magnetic drill to drill holes in 1.5" tube. The employee was removing metal shavings and his glove was caught by the bit pulling his left hand into the drill. The drill amputated his index fingertip and thumb, and lacerated his middle finger. | |||||
2019-06-21 | The Woodlands | Texas | Hussmann Services Corporation | Leg(s) | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
An employee was following up on preventive maintenance when a pressured pipeline exploded. As a result, the employee was hospitalized and suffered a leg amputation. | |||||
2019-05-28 | The Woodlands | Texas | Entergy Texas, Inc | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
An arc flash occurred while an elbow was being removed from a transformer, and an employee suffered third-degree burns on the face, hands, and belly. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-04-30 | The Woodlands | Texas | Entergy Texas, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
An employee was working in a new underground table conductor that was not energized and was using a machine to conduct a test to determine if the table was ready to be energized. While using the machine, he was shocked (2400 DC volts). The employee was hospitalized with blisters on his right leg and red marks in his chest. | |||||
2018-04-17 | The Woodlands | Texas | Texas Window Cleaning Company | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was descending a ladder to move from one roof level to another when the bottom of the ladder slipped out, causing him to fall from about the halfway point of the ladder to the lower roof level. He landed on his back and ruptured a disk. | |||||
2018-03-21 | The Woodlands | Texas | Hassel Construction Co., Inc. | Brain | Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was fine grading dirt around a concrete channel box when he tried to jump over the box, suffering a concussion and facial contusion. | |||||
2018-03-02 | The Woodlands | Texas | Randalls Grocery #3054 | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was attempting to unjam a piece of meat from a meat tenderizer machine when two of the employee's right middle fingers were pulled into the tenderizer and crushed. | |||||
2017-07-06 | The Woodlands | Texas | Pritchard Industries, Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving a refrigerator through a doorway when his right thumb was caught and partially amputated between the door and the refrigerator. | |||||
2017-06-04 | The Woodlands | Texas | Dillard's Inc. | Hip(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee was putting away clothes when she fell and injured her right hip, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-02-04 | The Woodlands | Texas | Baker Hughes | Forearm(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was trying to put a bit in a lifting rig for transport via a trolley crane. As he was extending his right arm it made contact with a sharp edge of the bit causing a laceration to the right forearm. The bit weighs approximately 50 pounds is 12 inches in length and 18-24 inches in width. | |||||
2015-09-03 | The Woodlands | Texas | Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was heating a bag of soup. As she pulled the bag of soup from the kettle containing hot water, the bag of soup broke, causing first and second degree burns on her torso and left arm. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-04-30 | The Woodlands | Texas | A & H Electric Co., LLC | Nonclassifiable | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee removed screws from a bus bar in a panel board, resulting in an electrical short that caused an arc flash. The employee was hospitalized with severe burns. | |||||
2015-04-20 | The Woodlands | Texas | Walmart Store 3213 | Foot (feet) and ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
An employee was coming back from lunch when she was struck by an SUV. The employee was in the crosswalk of the parking lot near the grocery entrance. The employee was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a fractured foot/ankle. | |||||
2015-01-27 | The Woodlands | Texas | AON | Leg(s) | Fall on same level |
Employee was about to get on a forklift when he fell and fractured leg. |