Garland Texas is a sizable manufacturing center and as such, it is home to a significant number of machinery accidents. In fact, Garland is ranked in the top 40 in the nation for the number of machinery accidents. This high rate of accidents per capita can be attributed to a variety of factors, but one of the most common is human error. When people are operating machinery, they are often distracted by the task at hand. This can lead to collisions, injuries, and even death. If you or someone you know has been injured in a Garland Texas machinery accident, please reach out for help.
According to Garland’s website, the average cost of a machinery accident in Garland is $292,000. This is higher than the national average cost of a machinery accident which is $177,000. The reason for this discrepancy is unclear but may be due to the size or complexity of the machines involved in Garland accidents.
Manufacturing Companies
Garland Texas is home to several manufacturing companies including
| Epiroc Drilling Solutions LLC Arena Brands, Inc. Hat Brands Holding Corporation Rhe Hatco, Inc. Sst Truck Company LLC Kirchhoff Automotive Dallas Inc. Arrow Fabricated Tubing, Ltd. |
Dac Vision Incorporated Garrett Electronics, Inc. Display Source Alliance, LLC Marking Systems, Inc. Micropac Industries, Inc. Telsco Industries, Inc. Fortress Iron, LP |
Each of these companies has a unique contribution to the local economy. By knowing about these companies and their operations in Garland Texas, you can better understand the local economy and how it benefits you.
Machinery Accidents
Garland Texas Machinery Accidents have occurred at various factories, businesses and farms. Some of the most common accidents that are related to machinery are slips, trips and falls. Slips, trips and falls are the leading cause of work-related injuries in the United States.
Here are some examples of Garland Texas machinery accidents that have resulted in serious injuries:
| AccidentDate | Employer | City | State | Description | Injury | Body Part | Event | Injury Source | Other Injury Source |
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| 08/09/2021 | Cosmax NBT USA, Inc. | Garland | Tx | An employee was adjusting an encapsulating tabulating machine press. The machine activated and came down on the employee's right hand, amputating the middle fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery | Special process machinery | |
| 22/08/2021 | Mauser Packaging Solutions | Garland | Tx | An employee was adjusting the belt on a machine when their finger became caught between the belt and the pulley. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery | Machinery | |
| 09/08/2021 | Osburn Trucking, LLC. | Garland | Tx | An employee was exiting a tool truck when he slipped off the access stairs and fell out of the truck. His left foot was fractured. | Fractures | Foot (feet) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Delivery truck or van | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 02/08/2021 | First Place Foods | Garland | Tx | An employee had an allergic reaction to the apron they wore. The employee developed a neck rash and was hospitalized. | Allergic dermatitis-acute | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue | Clothing | |
| 28/07/2021 | Henry Company LLC | Garland | Tx | An employee was trying to put a roll of roofing that had fallen off a pallet back onto the pallet when the palletizer gate crushed the employee's chest, resulting in broken ribs. | Fractures | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery | Stacking machinery | |
| 16/07/2021 | MICA Corporation | Garland | Tx | An employee was trying to determine what was preventing an auger bit from setting in a Kelly bar when his finger was caught in a pinch point in the Kelly bar. He suffered a fingertip amputation. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Oil drilling rigs and machinery | |
| 01/07/2021 | CPC LOGISTICS INC. | Garland | Tx | A driver was opening the back door of a trailer when product fell and broke their left ankle. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part | Containers-nonpressurized | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility |
| 29/06/2021 | Brinker International | Garland | Tx | An employee was using a knife to cut produce in the kitchen and amputated a fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Knives | |
| 18/06/2021 | LMMM Dallas #23 | Garland | Tx | An employee was cutting chicken with a meat saw. The saw cut the employee's left thumb, causing an amputation. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment | Butchering machinery | |
| 26/05/2021 | INTERCERAMIC INC. | Garland | Tx | An employee was operating a dryer kiln when an alarm went off indicating that one of the two limit switches of the centering device control was not functioning properly. In order to reach the centering device control limit switch, the employee used a rod and kneeled down stretching his body/hand forward between the dryer exit and a column of an unloader machine. The employee's body was caught between the exiting tile cart and the column of the unloader machine resulting in fractured ribs. | Fractures | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Kilns | |
| 21/05/2021 | General Dynamics | Garland | Tx | An employee was operating a CNC lathe. After machining a part, the employee went to open the lathe doors and his right middle finger was caught between the first and second accordion doors causing a partial fingertip amputation. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects | Lathes | |
| 24/04/2021 | STAR PLUS INC | Garland | Tx | An employee was reaching for filling inside a mixer. The auger caught his hand and pulled his arm in. He suffered lacerations and a broken arm. | Fractures | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage | |
| 07/04/2021 | Marking Sysems, Inc. | Garland | Tx | The employee was printing labels at the printing machine when the product shifted. The employee was adjusting the product and sustained an amputation to the fingertip. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Printing machinery and equipment | |
| 01/04/2021 | Daktronics Inc | Garland | Tx | An employee was descending an extension ladder when they fell, resulting in a fractured L1 vertebrae. | Fractures | Lumbar region | Other fall to lower level | Extension ladders | Nonclassifiable |
| 30/03/2021 | Pleasant Valley Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center | Garland | Tx | An employee tripped and fell while walking back from a dumpster. She landed on the concrete and suffered a broken elbow. | Fractures | Elbow(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces | |
| 22/03/2021 | Zobele USA Inc. | Garland | Tx | An employee was climbing up a fixed ladder attached to a tank when she fell from the ladder and suffered a broken ankle, resulting in hospitalization. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Other fall to lower level | Ladders-fixed | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 10/03/2021 | Daisy Brand, LLC | Garland | Tx | An employee was working on a carousel when his left pinky finger became caught in a chain and sprocket, resulting in amputation. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery | Machinery | |
| 05/10/2020 | Collier Metal Specialties LTD | Garland | Tx | An employee was using a 4-foot shear to trim strips of cardboard when his left pinky finger was caught under the hold bar of the machine and crushed. The employee suffered an amputation injury. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Shearing machines | |
| 10/09/2020 | INTERCERAMIC INC. | Garland | Tx | An employee was pushing a tile cart that was on an automated track into a dryer. The employee got caught between two carts and was struck by a cart. The employee sustained a broken pelvis. | Fractures | Pelvis | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Kilns | |
| 03/09/2020 | Red River Framing, LLC | Garland | Tx | An employee was framing using a nail gun. The nail gun fractured bones in his right hand. | Fractures | Hand(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Nail guns-powered | |
| 11/08/2020 | UPS Freight | Garland | Tx | An employee was assisting with moving cargo that was blocking the path at a customer's location. The customer was driving a forklift to move a pallet. While positioning cargo with a strap, the pallet shifted and the employee's fingers were caught between the strap and the pallet. Two fingertips were amputated. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Skids, pallets | Strapping |
| 07/08/2020 | Par Fore LLC | Garland | Tx | An employee was struck in the face with a golf club while walking behind a golfer, leading to hospitalization. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Face | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person | Baseball bats, hockey sticks, rackets | |
| 09/07/2020 | INTERCERAMIC INC. | Garland | Texas | An employee was cleaning the top of a 19-foot tank. The top gave way and he fell to the bottom, suffering fractures to a lower-back vertebra and four toes on the right foot. | Fractures | Multiple body parts | Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet | Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space | Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space |
| 18/06/2020 | JELD-WEN, Inc. | Garland | Texas | An employee was repairing a CNC router machine when the machine cycled and his head was pinched. The employee sustained a fractured skull. | Fractures | Skull | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Boring, routing, notching machines | |
| 10/06/2020 | La Fabrica, LLC | Garland | Texas | An employee was removing dough and attempting to clear a photo eye on a dough-dividing machine that was malfunctioning when the employee's right hand was caught in a shear point, resulting in the amputation of three fingers. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized | |
| 03/06/2020 | BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. | Garland | Texas | Two employees were in a scissor lift surveying storm damage on a roof panel. One of the employees fell from the lift cage to the concrete below and fractured their back. | Fractures | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Other fall to lower level | Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 06/05/2020 | Marking Systems Inc. | Garland | Texas | An employee was at the loading dock ready to unload a truck. The employee manually picked up the lift dock plate with the assistance of the delivery driver. The delivery driver released too soon, which caused the plate to land on the employee's right pinky and ring fingers. Part of the pinky finger was amputated during the incident. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person | Ramps, loading docks, dock plates | |
| 11/03/2020 | Cosmax NBT USA, Inc. | Garland | Texas | An employee was clearing a jam in the cutter blades of a jelly machine. The blades amputated the employee's ring and middle fingertips. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized | |
| 24/02/2020 | General Packaging Corporation | Garland | Texas | An employee was unloading palletized scrap metal from the bed of a bobtail truck using a pallet jack. The pallet of scrap metal started to fall over the edge at the end of the truck causing the pallet jack to raise up and crush the employee's right index finger between it and the scrap metal. The fingertip was amputated. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment | Pallet jack-powered | Scrap metal |
| 05/02/2020 | Napa Autoparts | Garland | Texas | An employee fell while retrieving a part from an aisle and struck his head on the floor, losing consciousness. | Intracranial injuries | Brain | Fall on same level | Floor | |
| 30/08/2019 | Daisy Brand | Garland | Texas | An employee was investigating an issue with a clean in place (CIP) system that cleans pipes. He removed the strainer and disconnected the pump. The pump had pressure behind it and hot water/caustic cleaning chemical burned him on his upper and lower back, requiring hospitalization. | Chemical burns and corrosions | Multiple back regions | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue | Cleaning and polishing agents | |
| 21/08/2019 | England Products Company | Garland | Texas | A driver was on his trailer handling a tarp when he slipped and fell to the ground sustaining a head injury. | Intracranial injuries | Brain | Other fall to lower level | Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 04/08/2019 | Sherwin-Williams Manufacturing Co | Garland | Texas | Approximately six hours into his shift, an employee was sweating profusely and came into the air-conditioned quality control lab to cool down. The employee became ill, lost consciousness, and was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. | Heat exhaustion, prostration | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 29/07/2019 | Stewart Stainless Supply, Inc. | Garland | Texas | An employee was unloading a truck of metal. The metal began falling off the truck, and a piece caught the employee's left hand against the bed of the truck, injuring the ring and little fingers. The little finger was medically amputated. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part | Parts and materials | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility |
| 23/05/2019 | Penske Truck Leasing, LLC | Garland | Texas | An employee was putting a license plate onto the front of a truck when the truck ran over him and drug him into the wash bay. He was hospitalized with lacerations and a puncture to the face, lacerations to the arms, part of the ear cut off, and multiple internal injuries. | Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area | Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility | |
| 08/05/2019 | Qualtex Industries, Inc. | Garland | Texas | An employee was painting from a scissor lift and fell 30 feet between the platform and the middle guardrail to the ground below. The employee sustained a fractured hip. The employee's harness was not tied off to the equipment at the time of the incident. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet | Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 17/04/2019 | K & K Stone, LP | Garland | Texas | An employee who was taking apart shelving slipped and fell off a beam. The employee fell approximately 4 feet to the concrete ground, suffering a fractured tibia and fibula. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Nonclassifiable | Floors, walkways, ground surfaces |
| 17/04/2019 | IFS Industries, Inc. | Garland | Texas | An employee using an air nozzle to blow out a grinder sustained a finger amputation when the grinder energized and the shredding wheel pulled the air nozzle and the employee's hand toward the wheel. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Grinders, abraders | |
| 07/03/2019 | Kroger Store #557 | Garland | Texas | An employee was pushing a shopping cart when she tripped on an anti-theft alarm post at an entrance doorway. She fell, breaking her left hip. She was hospitalized. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object | Floor | Machinery, n.e.c. |
| 17/02/2019 | FIESTA MART, L.L.C. | Garland | Texas | An employee was consolidating two pallets (on the second tier of some industrial shelving) into one, using an 8-foot ladder. While trying to get back onto the ladder, he fell to the concrete floor, breaking his right wrist. | Fractures | Wrist(s) | Other fall to lower level | Movable ladders | Floor, n.e.c. |
| 11/02/2019 | Ecolab | Garland | Texas | A forklift was backing out of a pick location after doing some work on a raw material container. While in reverse, the lift struck another employee in the back. This forced the employee's foot into an open end on a drum lifting device. The pressure compressed his steel toe boot and fractured toes on his left foot. | Fractures | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered | |
| 23/08/2018 | Preload LLC | Garland | Texas | An employee was using a forklift to load a truck. The forklift ran over the employee's foot, fracturing the right ankle. | Fractures | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered | |
| 05/06/2018 | Wilson Plywood & Door | Garland | Texas | On June 5, 2018, an employee was making moldings with a shaper. His left hand was caught in the shaper, and his left index and middle fingers were amputated. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Bending, rolling, shaping machinery | |
| 30/05/2018 | Northern Tool | Garland | Texas | An employee put blocks on an 18-wheeler trailer and was climbing down when he fell approximately 6-8 feet and hit the concrete floor with his head, requiring hospitalization. | Intracranial injuries | Brain | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet | Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck | Floor, n.e.c. |
| 25/05/2018 | FIESTA MART, L.L.C. | Garland | Texas | An employee was cutting fish when the blade sliced off the pad of his left middle finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Knives | |
| 25/05/2018 | Innovel Solutions | Garland | Texas | An employee was walking down stairs when he fell, landing on the concrete below. He suffered detached patellar tendons on both knees and was hospitalized. | Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments | Knee(s) | Other fall to lower level | Stairs, steps | |
| 24/05/2018 | GUARDIAN PACKAGING INDUSTRIES LP | Garland | Texas | An employee was fabricating a honeycomb part on a table saw and contacted the blade resulting in amputation of the tip of his right thumb and a laceration to the underside of his middle finger. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment | Table saws | |
| 01/03/2018 | The Buferd Company | Garland | Texas | An employee was using a belt sander to sharpen a rod when his hand was caught between the sander and the table, resulting in an amputation to his left middle finger's first digit. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Grinding, polishing machinery | |
| 20/02/2018 | Stericycle, Inc. | Garland | Texas | An employee was on the ground level manually lifting the dock plate to sit on a trailer. The dock leveler was a mechanical chain driven dock leveler that would not raise completely due to a mechanical issue with the tensioner. As the employee lifted the dock plate, he was pinned between the dock plate and the trailer resulting in broken ribs and a lacerated spleen. | Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects | Ramps, loading docks, dock plates | |
| 19/02/2018 | WhiteStar Logistics | Garland | Texas | An employee's right foot was run over by a forklift that was backing up, requiring surgery. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area | Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered | |
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If you or someone you know has been hurt in a machinery accident, contact a Garland Texas machinery accident lawyer as soon as possible. A lawyer can help you understand your legal rights and protect them. You may also be entitled to compensation for your losses.