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: Fall, slip, trip, unspecified at CARDINAL GLASS in Waxahachie, Texas

An employee was cleaning out the floor scrubber using a water hose. He went to turn off the fountain and slipped, injuring his left hip.

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Report: Fall on same level, n.e.c. at Ochsner in Harahan, Louisiana

An employee slipped/tripped and fell in the concrete parking lot while running to his automobile in the rain at an administrative building. The employee severely strained his right hamstring and sustained an abrasion on his right knee, as well as abrasions on the palms of both hands.

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Report: Contact with hot objects or substances at International Paper Company in Queen City, Texas

An employee was cleaning up hot pulp that had spilled on the floor (approximately 6-inches deep). The employee’s rubber boots became stuck in the pulp. As he tried freeing himself, his left foot came out of his boot. His unprotected foot landed in the pulp, causing second degree burns up to his ankle.

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Report: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. at Tennessee Valley Authority in Brentwood, Tennessee

On or about 05/19/2015, a utility crew was pulling two sections of a utility pole together with come-a-longs. Each section of the pole has rigging plates attached. One of the rigging plates broke loose and struck the employee on the back resulting in a ruptured spleen that required inpatient care and surgery.

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Report: Struck by discharged object or substance at WESTERN EXTRUSIONS CORPORATION in Carrollton, Texas

An employee was nailing 2×4’s together with a nail gun. He had several lined up on a table and was ailing them to make 4×4’s when he shot a nail through his right middle finger.

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Report: Struck by discharged object or substance at Jose Maria Marquez in Houston, Texas

An employee was descending a ladder when his hammer came loose from his tool belt, striking a shot strip that was lying on the floor. One of the unused shots detonated in the shot strip, causing a metal fragment to strike the employee’s right arm.

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Report: Fall on same level, n.e.c. at General Motors Arlington Assembly Plant in Arlington, Texas

An employee was walking in the plant and collided with another employee and fell to the floor. The employee suffered two separated vertebrae, six broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a broken right arm.

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Report: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet at SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc. in Kenner, Louisiana

An employee was chasing down fuel lines in order to decommission an oil cleaning rig. As he was doing so, he began stepping backwards toward an open side panel which had been used to access the trailer. He stepped out of the trailer and fell backwards approximately 49 inches onto the shop floor. He suffered […]

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Report: Other fall to lower level, unspecified at Global Source` in Kenner, Louisiana

An employee fell out the side of an 18 wheeler box trailer and hit his head on the concrete floor.

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Report: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified at Fasken Oil and Ranch LTD in Laredo, Texas

An employee’s right thumb was punctured by fencing material when erecting a fence on the ranch property. The employee began to experience abdominal stomach cramps days later and was admitted to the hospital. Diagnosis may be related to the employee’s thumb injury.

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