OSHA Injury Reports

This OSHA Injury Report was compiled directly from data that is publicly available from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA Injury Reports can be helpful in understanding the types of workplace injury claims involving defective products or malfunctioning equipment in the workplace. 

The manufacturers of defective equipment or machinery resulting in a worker injury may be found to be negligent and liable for damages in a separate civil lawsuit. You may be able to recover damages on top of a workers’ comp claim if injured in a job accident caused, in part, by a third party. These third party personal injury cases should be given responsible legal guidance.

Trammell Piazza Law Firm claims no responsibility for any errors or inconsistencies in OSHA’s data.

Report: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet at Air Innovations in Dickinson, Texas

An employee was sealing a gas furnace exhaust pipe on a two-story roof. The employee fell off the roof and broke a rib and bruised a leg. The employee was not wearing fall protection at the time.

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Report: Exposure to environmental heat at Labor Finders in Metairie, Louisiana

After picking debris up outside between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., a temporary employee became overheated and was cramping up due to heat exhaustion.

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Report: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c. at Wilkinson Gary Iron & Metal, Inc. in Alice, Texas

An employee’s right foot was caught between the ground and the outriggers on a magnet crane. The employee’s toes were fractured.

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Report: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified at Lubbock Electric Co., Inc in Lubbock, Texas

An employee was performing maintenance on a MCC bucket. The fuses went phase-to-phase and shocked the employee. The employee suffered first and second degree burns to the right forearm.

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Report: Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident at Grocery Supply in Houston, Texas

An employee was closing the trailer bay door while operating a dock jeep and got his head stuck between the safety bars of the dock jeep and the trailer bay door. He suffered multiple facial fractures and a right temporal intracranial skull fracture.

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Report: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area at Ranger Excavation in Cedar Park, Texas

An employee was working under the front of a truck when another employee got in the truck and backed up over the employee. The employee suffered a fractured right hip and pelvic area.

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Report: Struck by discharged or flying object, unspecified at Southland Contracting, Inc. in Kerens, Texas

An employee was attempting to remove a metal wedge from a tall tunnel boring machine when pressure from the equipment caused the wedge to strike the employee’s face, injuring the right cheek and nose.

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Report: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object at Gainco, Inc. in Harlingen, Texas

An employee bent down to pick up a small section of rebar so a backhoe operator would not run over the rebar and puncture a tire. When the employee stood upright and started walking, he tripped on a small object, causing him to fall and land on his right shoulder. He was hospitalized due to […]

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Report: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts at ENTERGY CORPORATION in Leola, Arkansas

An employee was performing a repair on a downed utility line. The utility line arced and caused third-degree electrical burns to his left arm and left side of the back.

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Report: Direct exposure to electricity, unspecified at Seaboard Foods, LLC in Guymon, Oklahoma

Two employees were using conductive tools to install a PLC when they came into contact with an energized component. An arc flash occurred, causing second and third degree burns to the employees.

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