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: Explosion, n.e.c. at Esterline Defense Technologies in Camden, Arkansas

Two employees were loading explosive pyrotechnics into a drying tumbler when the material exploded, burning the face and hands of both employees. One of the employees also fractured her elbow and lacerated her leg.

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Report: Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode at Grifols, Inc. in Amarillo, Texas

An employee was packing and moving plasma cases when a stack of cases began to fall. To avoid being struck, the employee turned suddenly and pulled a back muscle.

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Report: Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts at Newtron Beaumont, LLC in Port Neches, Texas

An employee was helping to inspect an electrical line and repairing a jumper that came off the transformer switch. The employee pulled two of the three switches to de-energize the pole line and then repositioned his bucket truck to get to the next switch. When he grabbed the wire to reinstall it onto the third […]

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Report: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation at International Paper Company in Queen City, Texas

An employee was cutting cores with a saw. While she was attempting to retrieve a marking crayon, the saw cut her right hand and broke her right index finger. She was hospitalized.

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Report: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet at VALERO TEXAS CITY REFINERY in Texas City, Texas

An employee was descending a ladder and lost his footing falling 12-15 feet. The employee sustained a broken left wrist, dislocated the right shoulder and fractured the right side of his face and jaw.

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Report: Other animal bites, nonvenomous at Amarillo Veterinary Clinic in Amarillo, Texas

An employee was attempting to retrieve a cat from a cage to give it a shot when the cat turned and bit her.

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Report: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part at Conestoga Production Services, LLC in Coushatta, Louisiana

An employee was unbolting pipe and installing a plug on valves. A crane was lifting a B-Tex condensing unit. The unit tipped over, striking the employee in the back. The employee suffered a broken right shoulder blade, three broken ribs, and a collapsed lung, requiring hospitalization.

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Report: Needlestick without exposure to harmful substance at SIMMONS FOODS, INC. in Huntsville, Arkansas

An employee was injecting a vaccine into chickens on a poultry farm along a conveying system and stuck the back of his left index finger with the injection apparatus.

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Report: Other fall to lower level, unspecified at OCHSNER HOSPITAL in New Orleans, Louisiana

An employee tripped and fell while walking down a flight of stairs, injuring the right knee.

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Report: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet at CHIEF FIRE SYSTEMS in Magnolia, Texas

An employee was attempting to tighten bolts on a sprinkler system used for fire suppression when a gasket ruptured, causing water under pressure to flow out and strike him. He then fell 16.5 feet from his ladder to the concrete floor below. He suffered facial scrapes, an orbital bone fracture above the left eye, a […]

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