Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-11-14 | Waller | Tx | Natura PCR2 | Leg(s) | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee misstepped while descending a ladder and fell approximately 7.5 feet to the floor below, resulting in a potential broken leg. | |||||
2021-09-02 | Waller | Tx | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c. |
The injured employee was parked in a tugger. A reach truck driver was relocating a container that was behind a stack of containers. The forks came into contact with the stack of containers, tipping it over onto the injured employee's tugger. The injured employee was hospitalized with lacerations to both hands and the right side of their face. | |||||
2021-02-24 | Waller | Tx | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was removing material from a container when the material shifted, causing his right pinky fingertip to be caught between the material and the wall of the container. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the right pinky fingertip. | |||||
2020-09-01 | Waller | Tx | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was putting a bend channel in a sheet of metal using a press brake. The brake actuated and the sheet metal rose up against the brake die, smashing the employee's fingers between the brake die and the sheet metal. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the left middle finger at the last joint. | |||||
2020-06-01 | Waller | Texas | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee was applying manifolds to a coil. The coil got stuck on the stopper. As the employee pushed the stopper, the employee's glove was caught between it and the coil. The employee's left middle finger was fractured and partially amputated. | |||||
2020-02-15 | Waller | Texas | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was holding the stand in order to set a die onto to it. The die was placed on the employee's pinky finger resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-09-19 | Waller | Texas | Impellam Group | Ankle(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker |
An employee was driving a forklift, moving coiled steel. The employee dismounted the forklift and went to roll the coil to reset it. The 1,520-pound coil rolled toward him, over his ankle, causing a compound fracture and lacerations. | |||||
2019-05-24 | Waller | Texas | Lofton Security Service, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle |
An employee was patrolling the complex in a golf cart when the employee collided with a stationary trailer, suffering a laceration to the right leg, body contusions, a bruised aorta, and a blood clot in the heart. | |||||
2019-05-16 | Waller | Texas | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was preparing to install a wiring harness to the base of an outside air conditioning unit that was being manufactured. The base of the unit contained the compressor and two sets of wires. One set of wires had fallen below and was caught in a section of rotating chain and sprocket on the conveyor. The employee attempted to remove the wires and both of her hands were caught between the chain and sprocket. Both middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2019-04-13 | Waller | Texas | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode |
An employee was pushing an air handler on a conveyor system when he suffered a hernia. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery. | |||||
2019-01-29 | Waller | Texas | Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was manually maneuvering a steel coil weighing 1,320 lbs. from the storage area to the forks of his forklift when the steel coil fell onto him. The employee was hospitalized for bruises and lacerations and leg fractures. | |||||
2016-09-06 | Waller | Texas | Magnolia Gardens Nursery | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee was attempting to replace the plastic cover on top of a greenhouse when he slipped and fell 10 feet onto a concrete floor. He was hospitalized with a head injury. | |||||
2016-02-18 | Waller | Texas | IQI Construction, LLC | Nonclassifiable | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet |
Employees were welding a wall plate to connect a structural steel member. The base of the member became unstable, and the structural steel started to fall, causing an employee sitting on a cross member to fall 15 feet to the ground below. A second employee was welding while standing in an aerial lift basket when the structural steel member fell and crashed down on the lift, slamming it to the ground. The employee suffered multiple blunt force trauma injuries and was hospitalized. |