| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-03 | Waxahachie | Tx | Cardinal IG Company | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was stacking racks for transporting insulated glass units. He was placing the fourth rack on top. It failed to settle onto the pins at first, then fell into place when bumped. It crushed the tip of his right little finger, causing a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2021-03-07 | Waxahachie | Tx | Kirkland's | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was vacuuming the floor and tripped over the hose and fell to the floor, possibly breaking her hip. | |||||
| 2021-02-09 | Waxahachie | Tx | Admiral Security | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| An employee was closing a gate when they turned back and tripped over a wheel on the gate, falling to the ground and fracturing a hip. | |||||
| 2020-08-07 | Waxahachie | Tx | Berry Global | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee disengaged a shaft cylinder and in the process severely pinched her right index finger between the shaft and the shaft collar. | |||||
| 2020-05-08 | Waxahachie | Texas | Hilco Electric | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was setting a power pole when his right thumb tip was caught in the boom tip on a digger truck, partially amputating the tip of his right thumb. | |||||
| 2018-09-08 | Waxahachie | Texas | Cotton Patch Cafe | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was walking through a dish area when he slipped and fell to the floor, breaking his hip. | |||||
| 2018-08-30 | Waxahachie | Texas | Integrated Roadway Services, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee's right thumb contacted a concrete truck chute, resulting in a thumb tip amputation. | |||||
| 2018-07-03 | Waxahachie | Texas | Cardinal Glass Industries | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| While an employee was collapsing a folding table, the metal hinge trapped his right little finger, causing an amputation. | |||||
| 2018-06-07 | Waxahachie | Texas | James Hardie Building Products, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| Two employees were traveling in a utility vehicle. As the driver made a sharp turn, the vehicle overturned and caught the passenger's right leg between the vehicle and the ground. The employee's right fibula was fractured and lacerated. | |||||
| 2018-01-25 | Waxahachie | Texas | CBRE Group, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was performing maintenance on an exhaust fan motor for a salon. The employee performed lockout/tagout on the unit but the fan continued to rotate because of the positive pressure in the building. The employee was attempting to slow the rotation of the fan by slowing the drive belt when the employee's right hand was pulled into the drive pulley, amputating the right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-01-24 | Waxahachie | Texas | Circle H Contractors | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee suffered a finger amputation while lifting a fire hydrant. | |||||
| 2017-07-05 | Waxahachie | Texas | Dartco of Texas, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was hospitalized after servicing equipment and received a finger amputation. | |||||
| 2017-04-07 | Waxahachie | Texas | Life School | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall, slip, trip, n.e.c. |
| An employee was at a school function at a trampoline park. He was doing flips when he landed on his back, injuring his neck. He required surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-03-29 | Waxahachie | Texas | Cardinal CG | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was using a Kevlar Rope wrapper to install Kevlar fabric onto a roller. The control was fixed so the machine continued to run while the employee adjusted the Kevlar fabric. Both of his pinky fingers were caught between the Kevlar rope and the metal roller, tearing the skin at the base of one if his left fingers that required surgery and fracturing one of his right fingers. | |||||
| 2017-03-02 | Waxahachie | Texas | Owens Corning, LLC | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was attempting to remove paper from between rollers on the manufacturing line. The employee's glove got caught in the rollers pulling her left arm into the rollers resulting in tissue damage to the arm. | |||||
| 2016-02-21 | Waxahachie | Texas | Owens Corning, LLC | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| On or about February 21, 2016, at approximately 9:40 a.m., an employee operating a wool separator machine was attempting to clear a jam when his hand was caught in the machine. He suffered an avulsion that required hospitalization for stitches. | |||||
| 2016-02-19 | Waxahachie | Texas | Tradesman International | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| While performing wood framing, an employee fell from a 10-foot ladder to the concrete floor, breaking ribs. | |||||
| 2015-10-23 | Waxahachie | Texas | West Rock | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee got a finger caught in the shredder machine while unjamming it. | |||||
| 2015-10-20 | Waxahachie | Texas | Cabinet Specialist | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee's hand got caught between the conveyor belt and roller on a sanding machine. | |||||
| 2015-09-17 | Waxahachie | Texas | U.S. Aluminum | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| The employee was operating a saw and reached in to remove a jammed aluminum part and amputated the tip of his right ring finger. | |||||
| 2015-09-16 | Waxahachie | Texas | Boldt Construction | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
| An employee was observing other employees install a forming machine and began to complain of leg cramps. | |||||
| 2015-08-28 | Waxahachie | Texas | Kinro Composites | Upper arm(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was unloading panels of windows from one cart to another. The glass sheets got stuck together and fell on the employee, severely cutting the employee's right forearm. | |||||
| 2015-08-10 | Waxahachie | Texas | JAMES HARDIE BUILDING PRODUCTS | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was unloading an auto clave, stepped off of a concrete auto plate located outside of the work platform, and fell approximately 18 inches into a condensate drain. The drain contained hot water at a temperature of 170 degrees. The employee sustained second degree burns. | |||||
| 2015-07-24 | Waxahachie | Texas | Georgia Pacific | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee fell and ruptured his spleen while unjamming the cyclone on the roof. | |||||
| 2015-07-21 | Waxahachie | Texas | Magnablend Univar Co. | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was dumping bags of dry phosphoric acid into a mixer from an elevated platform that was 8-feet, 9-inches high off the ground. A forklift had a pallet of the dry phosphoric acid. The portion calls for 40 bags to be dumped. The pallet was airborne, not sitting on the platform. The employee finished dumping the bags, turned to look for something, and fell between the pallet and the platform. The opening between the pallet and platform was 35 inches. The employee was unconscious and re | |||||
| 2015-05-21 | Waxahachie | Texas | CARDINAL GLASS | Hip(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was cleaning out the floor scrubber using a water hose. He went to turn off the fountain and slipped, injuring his left hip. | |||||