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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Taco Palenque

Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Taco Palenque, 1908 Aduanales, LAREDO, TEXAS 78040 on — Fractures, affecting the pelvis.

An employee was climbing a 20-foot extension ladder to adjust boxes he had flung to the top of the wall when the ladder slipped. Both the ladder and employee fell down. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured pelvis.

Hospitalized Pelvis Extension ladders

P&C Roofing, Inc.

An employee was transitioning from a ladder onto a roof when the ladder slipped and they fell approximately 20 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their pelvis and heel.

Melvin Sipaque

An employee was tearing down shingles when they fell approximately 18 feet from a roof to the ground, sustaining a broken ankle.

All Seasons Roofing & Construction Inc

An employee was climbing a ladder to bring material onto a roof. The ladder slid and the employee fell 16 feet to the ground, resulting in a broken knee.

Caterpillar, Inc.

An employee was performing an inspection of a bridge crane while working from a 19-foot scissor lift. The employee was going to use a pendant to move the crane to access a different portion of the crane for visual inspection. The scissor lift guard rails were below the girder of the crane to avoid contact. The tow arm for the crane collectors contacted the guardrail of the scissor lift and caused it to tip over. The employee stayed inside the scissor lift basket as he fell to the floor. The employee sustained fractures to the right arm and hip.

Advantage Solutions

An employee was on a forklift that was elevated approximately 20 feet and was auditing inventory. The forklift malfunctioned and the employee fell down to the surface below, causing them to sustain multiple fractures.

Waffle House, Inc.

An employee's hand was on a door frame when the door slammed shut. Her left little finger was amputated at the first joint.

Steward Group Management, Inc.

An employee slipped on the floor while walking into the refrigerator and fell, resulting in a broken ankle.

Portillo's Hot Dogs, LLC

An employee was placing stabilizing bars on the fryer when his arm slipped into the hot oil causing burns to his left hand, wrist, and forearm.

WendSchmidt Ohio

An employee tripped on a curb and suffered a broken arm.

Portillo's Hot Dogs, LLC

An employee was walking through the gravy cooler when he slipped. His left hand went into one of the pots containing hot gravy. The employee was hospitalized with second degree burns to the left forearm and blisters.

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.