| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-25 | Weatherford | Tx | Phillips Welding Supply Inc | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was walking on top of steel that had been loaded on a trailer. The employee fell from the steel, suffering broken ribs and a punctured lung. | |||||
| 2021-01-08 | Weatherford | Ok | Tier 1 Completions Solutions | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was using a rag to wipe down a 3/8-inch metal cable. A burr on the line grabbed the rag, causing the employee's right ring finger to be pulled into a sheave. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger. | |||||
| 2020-09-08 | Weatherford | Tx | WALMART STORE #0963 | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
| An employee tripped while walking and fell to the floor, hitting his head and injuring his hip. | |||||
| 2020-06-18 | Weatherford | Texas | Walmart | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| While stocking merchandise on top shelves, an employee fell from a stock cart to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to the head, arm and wrist, and required surgery for her wrist. | |||||
| 2020-06-01 | Weatherford | Texas | Ameri-Fab | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
| An employee pulling weeds at a private residence was bitten on the finger by a copperhead snake. | |||||
| 2019-08-22 | Weatherford | Texas | Wright Tree Services | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts |
| An employee was in a bucket trimming limbs with a hydraulic stick saw. A cut limb fell onto a primary power line, pushing the primary line down into the neutral line. The resulting arc flash burned the employee's right hand. | |||||
| 2019-07-28 | Weatherford | Texas | Atkore International | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was purging material through a silo that has a rotary air lock on the bottom. Product was not flowing; when the employee tried to get the product flowing again, three fingers were amputated in the air-lock mechanism. | |||||
| 2019-05-14 | Weatherford | Texas | USA Compression Partners, LP | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| On 5/14/2019, an employee fell down stairs and fractured the right ankle, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2019-04-29 | Weatherford | Texas | Dralco Systems, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working in the hydro area cleaning flanges. The employee reached over to try and level the berry hone device (a rotating shaft inside of a pipe that removes burrs) that was in another pipe and the employee's left pinky finger was amputated. | |||||
| 2019-01-29 | Weatherford | Texas | Brazos Electric Coorperative | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee stepped onto a dump truck to check the load. As he was climbing down his ring finger was caught on the steps and lacerated. | |||||
| 2018-09-10 | Weatherford | Oklahoma | M Wright Services, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| While an employee was using a manual post driver, his left middle finger was trapped between the driver and a post. The fingertip was crushed; he was hospitalized, and the tip was medically amputated. | |||||
| 2018-09-04 | Weatherford | Oklahoma | Semper Fi Oilfield Services, LLC | Leg(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee was tightening a new battery on a truck when the truck slipped off its jack. The employee's left leg was caught on the truck's battery box, breaking the leg and causing a laceration. | |||||
| 2018-02-12 | Weatherford | Texas | Weatherford Aerospace LLC | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| There was an overflow of water in the FT containment area causing an empty tank to float in the containment area. The overflowing water caused the tank to get pinned against a walkway. A waste treatment tech was attempting to dislodge the tank with a steel bar used for breaking up concrete and pinched his fingers between the steel bar and the tank. When he began using the bar to un-wedge the tank, the tank suddenly came loose, rolled up his right index and middle fingers and pinned them between | |||||
| 2018-01-23 | Weatherford | Texas | McLane Express | Hip(s) | Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a tugger when he went around a corner and fell off the tugger, landing on and fracturing his hip. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-10-06 | Weatherford | Texas | The Home Depot | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
| On 10/06/2017, an employee was in the parking lot retrieving shopping carts when he tripped over some rebar that was sticking out of a bundle on the side of the building. He fractured his right hip and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-07-07 | Weatherford | Oklahoma | Cactus Drilling Company LLC | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was helping to remove a drill pipe from a hole. His right hand was on the stand of drill pipe while an iron roughneck operator retracted the equipment so it could be positioned out of the way. The iron roughneck operator swung the piece of equipment and struck the employee's right ring fingertip, amputating it. | |||||
| 2017-04-10 | Weatherford | Texas | Atkore Plastic Pipe Corp. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was checking the ID of a pipe for smoothness. While she was checking the inside of the pipe with her thumb, the machine cycled pushing the pipe back against a back stop and trapping her thumb between the back stop and the wall of the pipe. The tip of her thumb was amputated. | |||||
| 2016-05-26 | Weatherford | Texas | United States Postal Service | Knee(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was returning to her vehicle after delivering a parcel to the front porch of a house when she rolled her left ankle on the sidewalk. She then lost her balance and fell to the sidewalk, fracturing her right patella. | |||||
| 2016-02-17 | Weatherford | Oklahoma | Diversified Services | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee was cleaning out trash from the bed of a truck at the PSO yard. He stepped back and turned to throw out some trash and stepped on a plastic bottle. As he slipped and fell, his foot was caught between a fiberglass pole and the bed of the truck, breaking his leg. | |||||
| 2016-01-25 | Weatherford | Texas | Jamak Fabrication | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was feeding a compound into an injection mold press when his hand got caught in the feeder, partially amputating his left-hand middle finger. | |||||
| 2015-09-01 | Weatherford | Texas | The Elite Fleet | Ankle(s) | Slip on vehicle without fall-nontransport |
| An employee strapping down cargo on a flatbed trailer slipped from the ratchet socket and twisted his ankle. | |||||