Mesa, Arizona is a city known for its heavy industrial activity. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mesa workers are three times as likely to suffer injuries from machinery accidents as workers in other cities. One reason why this is such a problem is that many people who work in heavy industrial areas are not properly trained in how to operate machinery safely. Many of these workers do not wear safety equipment, or they don’t use it properly. As a result, they are often injured when they are hit by something moving around on the machine. To make matters even worse, many companies do not have proper safety policies in place. They only care about profits, and they don’t care about their employees’ safety. If you are ever involved in an accident, be sure to seek medical attention immediately and contact an experienced personal injury lawyer to help you get the compensation you deserve.
Manufacturing Companies
Mesa Arizona is a great place to do business because of the abundant natural resources and the favorable climate. Here are three industrial companies that are based in Mesa and operating successfully include
| Precision Metal Manufacturing L.L.C. Mitel (delaware). Inc. Nammo Defense Systems Inc. Mgc Pure Chemicals America, Inc. Rkbs – US Lbm, LLC Southwest Distributing Co. Alpine Valley Bread Company |
Trio Forest Products, Inc. Auer Precision Stamping Incorporated Mitel Networks, Inc. Bass Cabinet Manufacturing Inc. Milling Machinery, Inc. Orthotic Holdings, Inc. Rural Electric, Inc. |
Machinery Accidents
There have been several machinery accidents in Mesa Arizona over the years. Some of these have been fatal, while others have resulted in serious injuries. Here is a look at some of the most notable machinery accidents that have occurred in Mesa Arizona.
| AccidentDate | Employer | City | State | Description | Injury | Body Part | Event | Injury Source | Other Injury Source |
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| 12/11/2021 | Punkin Center Gins Inc | Lamesa | Tx | An employee was on top of a battery condenser. The equipment caught his left arm, degloving it and breaking it in several places. | Fractures | Multiple arm locations | Caught in running equipment or machinery | Picking, carding, combing machinery | |
| 30/10/2021 | US Agricultural Marketing Service | Lamesa | Tx | An employee was using a shredder. The vacuum on the shredder sucked the employee's finger into the blades, which amputated the tip of the employee's right middle finger. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Shredders | |
| 03/10/2020 | Dean Hagler Ltd | Lamesa | Tx | An employee was operating a buffer inside the electrical room to buff paint thinner onto the floor. The resulting vapor found an ignition source and an explosion occurred. The employee sustained burns to 43% of his body. | Heat (thermal) burns | Multiple body parts | Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids | Paint removers, thinners | |
| 09/01/2020 | Advanced Mustang Energy Services LP | Lamesa | Texas | The injured employee parked the vacuum truck on the SW end of the pulling unit. Another employee used the winch line on the pulling unit to grab a pipe. He wrapped the winch line around the vacuum truck's bumper tow pin and back up around the pipe to just below half-way up the pipe. The pipe began to bow in the middle. The pipe gave way and hit the injured employee on the left side, stomach, and back knocking the employee to the ground. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Multiple body parts | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle | Pipes, ducts, tubing | Material and personnel handling machinery |
| 13/06/2019 | National Park Service | Mesa Verde National Park | Colorado | An employee was riding a bike to go on patrol. As he was coming around the corner, a gust of wind began to blow off his hat. He used his right hand to keep his hat on and accidentally hit the front brake with his left hand. He then went over the handlebars and fractured the top of his left hip at the socket. He was hospitalized. | Fractures | Hip(s) | Fall from pedal cycle | Bicycle, pedal cycle | |
| 07/08/2018 | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | Mesa | Arizona | An employee was delivering mail to a box mounted next to a customer's door when a dog pushed the door open and jumped on the employee, biting him. | Traumatic injuries and disorders | Nonclassifiable | Other animal bites, nonvenomous | Dogs, canines-domestic | |
| 19/07/2018 | RES America Construction Inc. | Lamesa | Texas | An employee was performing manual labor to build a solar farm outside when he began feeling unwell and experienced severe cramps in his stomach, legs, neck, jaw, and hands. He was hospitalized for dehydration and kidney malfunction due to heat stress. | Multiple effects of heat and light | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 10/01/2018 | King Mesa, Inc. | Lamesa | Texas | An employee was attempting to wipe lint out of a lint cleaner when his right index fingertip was amputated. The lint cleaner had not completely cycled through at the time of the incident. | Amputations | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Textile, apparel, leather production machinery | |
| 09/10/2017 | WS Energy Services, LLC | Lamesa | Texas | During rig-down operations, an employee's left hand was caught between a hydraulic torque wrench and a flange, amputating his thumb from the mid-knuckle to the tip. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker | Turning handtools-powered | |
| 20/09/2017 | Peak Completion Technologies, Inc. | Lamesa | Texas | Employees were running packers and had just finished a job. The injured employee was kneeling down on the left knee on the under floor (floor that was six feet off the ground) when a sudden burst of pressure and flow back struck the injured employee's right side dislocating an elbow, breaking the ulna and causing various abrasions and bruises. | Fractures and dislocations | Elbow(s) and arms(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance | Source | |
| 03/04/2017 | U.S. Forest Service-Tonto National Park-Mesa Ranger Station | Mesa | Arizona | An employee became ill after participating in physical fitness exercise. He experienced cramping and nausea due to heat and dehydration. | Effects of heat and light, n.e.c. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 19/09/2016 | Grayco | La Mesa | Texas | An employee finished work at the end of the day and as he was walking to his truck he began vomiting and feeling light headed possibly due to heat stress. | Effects of heat and light | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat | Heat-environmental | |
| 16/06/2016 | U.S. POSTAL SERVICE A&DC | Mesa | Arizona | An employee was delivering a package to a residence. She held the package over a wrought iron gate with her right hand then stuck her left arm through the bars of the gate to lower the package to the ground. The gate opened electronically and the employee's upper left arm was caught and fractured in the gate. | Fractures | Upper arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. | Gates | |
| 13/02/2016 | Powderhorn Mountain Resort | Mesa | Colorado | An employee was testing the jumps and features of the terrain park, lost control of the snowboard, and fell sustaining severe head trauma. | Intracranial injuries | Brain | Fall on same level, n.e.c. | Ground | Snow sports equipment |
| 02/11/2015 | King Mesa Inc. | Lamesa | Texas | An employee was cleaning around a lint cleaner saw. The employee's sleeve got caught in the saw resulting in the amputation of the left middle finger. | Amputations | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation | Textile, apparel, leather production machinery | Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts |
| 14/03/2015 | BOS SOLUTIONS, INC. | Battlement Mesa | Colorado | An employee on an oil rig had his left hand amputated by a rock crusher while dislodging rocks from the machine. Lockout procedures were not followed at the time. | Amputations | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery | Oil drilling rigs and machinery | |
| 03/02/2015 | King-Mesa Inc. | Lamesa | Texas | A worker was cleaning the lint cleaner before the machine came to a complete stop. The worker's glove was caught on the saw pulling her right hand into the machine. | Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning | Textile, apparel, leather production machinery | Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves |
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