Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-24 | Weimar | Tx | J Bar B Foods | Ankle(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee was walking between pallet racks when he hit his head on a horizontal beam on one of the racks, causing him to twist his right ankle, resulting in a fracture. | |||||
2020-02-12 | Weimar | Texas | J Bar B Foods | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee had just finished working on a fan motor. When the fan was turned on to verify the direction of its rotation, the vacuum of the fan pulled the tip of the employee's right index finger into the spinning blade, causing it to be severely lacerated from the middle of the nail to the end of the finger. | |||||
2018-05-08 | Weimar | Texas | Utex Industries, Inc. | Hand(s) and arm(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was drilling into a pressurized container and the container ruptured. The contents of the container were hot and burned the employee's hand and arms. | |||||
2015-01-28 | Weimar | Texas | Packers Sanitation Services, Inc (PSSI) | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
Employee was working on a ladder. He slipped and instinctively grabbed onto a piece of equipment to try and steady himself, causing an avulsion to the left-hand middle and ring fingers. This resulted in hospitalization, and those fingers were amputated. |