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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

H E B

Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at H E B, 1600 Wildcat Drive, PORTLAND, TEXAS 78374 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

Employee amputated the tip of her thumb and nail (no bone) using a deli meat slicer.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Food slicers

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An employee was walking in a parking lot when she missed a step, fell, and struck her head against a concrete curb, resulting in a laceration to the bridge of her nose that required stitches, as well as hospitalization due to a possible brain bleed and a concussion.

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An employee was cutting a 15-pound piece of ribeye on a saw. The blade of the saw contacted the employee's right hand causing a partial amputation to the middle finger and injury to the index finger requiring stitches.

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An employee was in the cooler, loading a cart with boxed meat products. The employee was exiting the cooler with the cart when his right hand got caught between the cart and the doorframe of the cooler. The employee's right middle finger was amputated.

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An employee was emptying a trash can. A piece of glass in the trash can cut her lower left leg near the ankle and severed a tendon. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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An employee was setting up a floor display when they slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured left knee.

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NorAm Drilling Company

An employee was assisting with pipe on a drilling rig. The slips came down and landed on the employee's left foot fracturing four metatarsals.

Stalworth Underground LLC

Two employees were struck by the rotary table of a drilling rig while installing caisson. Employee 1 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, and head trauma. Employee 2 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, spinal injury, and head trauma.

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior

Employees were felling hazard trees. The injured employee was conducting 'bucking' operations to saw a tree from the road when the tree kicked-back, pinning him against the ground and fracturing his left femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HT Energy LLC

An employee was greasing tongs on a work-over rig. The tongs lacerated one of the employee's fingers.

TKM BENGARD FARMS, LLC

An employee was chaining a vehicle when he had to change tools and the compressor. As the compressor was being charged, the employee stepped near the vehicle to make sure the compressor was attached. Then, he instructed a co-worker to lower the compressor. His right hand was on the compressor and under the chain, causing his ring finger to be crushed.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.