Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Benedictine Ministries, 416 West Highland Drive, BOERNE, TEXAS 78006
on — Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
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Final narrative
Two employees were power washing the interior of a bath house with a fuel powered pressure washer. The door was shut and the employees were overcome by carbon monoxide. The employees were admitted to the hospital.
An employee was passing through a building when she suffered an allergic reaction to a cinnamon air freshener. The employee began to feel dizzy and ill, ultimately becoming unresponsive. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.
An employee was preparing a pump for maintenance. When the employee removed a cover, chemicals were released into the air. The employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan and was hospitalized.
A television crew was filming in our sanctuary and asked an employee to adjust the temperature in the space. As the employee turned around after adjusting the temperature, he slipped on the lid of an equipment case and fell. The employee twisted when he fell on the floor and injured his right knee below the patella. The employee sustained swelling, a severe hematoma, and pulmonary embolisms requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was preparing meals in a kitchen when an object struck their head, resulting in a laceration to the head and a swollen right eye. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a brain injury.
An employee was working from a ladder, changing banners on a wall. The ladder slid backward and gave out and the employee fell, landing on the on the flagstone floor about 13 to 15 feet below. He was hospitalized with a broken elbow and wrist, and he required surgery.
On January 7, 2025, an employee was vacuuming between pews when they tripped over the kneeler in a pew and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.
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.
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.
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.