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: Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway at SPQ Environmental in Georgetown, Texas

While drilling a hole for installation of a dirt infiltration system, the machine became unbalanced and tipped over. The employee suffered a fractured foot.

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Report: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet at JDW Services, Inc. in Gladewater, Texas

An employee was working to remove a section of catwalk that was approximately 30 feet high when he stepped from the catwalk section being removed onto the assumed catwalk to be left in place. The planking of the catwalk bent, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the ground. He suffered a broken […]

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Report: Fall on same level, n.e.c. at United States Post Office in Spring, Texas

An employee was stepping into a vehicle at a customer site, holding a package she had just picked up. She fell to the ground, suffering a broken right femur.

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Report: Slip on vehicle without fall-nontransport at Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. in Andrews, Texas

An employee was conducting wildlife surveys from a UTV. After attempting to dig out the UTV, she was climbing back into the vehicle and had her hand on the roll bar when her foot slipped off the step-up plate, causing a sudden sharp pain to her abdomen area. She was in severe pain and required […]

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Report: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified at Distribution International in Dallas, Texas

On May 7, at approximately 10:24 AM, a temporary employee was standing on a platform while insulation was being rolled on a laminating machine’s mandrel when his hand was pulled into the rotating mandrel. He suffered a cervical fracture in his neck and two fractured bones in his right arm, requiring hospitalization and neck surgery.

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Report: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified at CEC Facilities Group, LLC in Dallas, Texas

An employee was operating a skid steer while another employee acted as a spotter. The two employees were talking, with the skid steer stopped; the machine jerked and its track struck the spotter, breaking her left tibia. She was hospitalized.

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Report: Explosion of nonpressurized vapors, gases, or liquids at Skye Blue Services, LLC in Kermit, Texas

Three employees were cleaning a heater treater when a gas build-up caused an explosion in the building. Two of the employees received minor injuries; the third was hospitalized, having suffered a severe laceration across the forehead, burns to the face and neck, and a fractured spine.

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Report: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway at Johnson Lumber Company, Inc. in Spavinaw, Oklahoma

An employee was operating a loader when it backed over a hill. The employee was thrown from the loader and was hospitalized for a dislocated shoulder, three broken ribs, a cracked pelvis and a bleeding spleen.

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Report: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment at LMMM DALLAS #26, LTD. in Irving, Texas

An employee was cutting a piece of frozen meat with a band saw when his hand slipped and the blade cut his right little finger, causing a displaced fracture of the distal phalanx.

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Report: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet at Rio Verde Framing LLC in Allen, Texas

An employee was installing exterior handrails on the fourth floor of a multi-family residential building under construction when the employee fell approximately 40 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with leg and back injuries.

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