105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

HAMILTON, TEXAS—

Pederson's Farms

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Pederson's Farms, 1207 S. Rice Street, HAMILTON, TEXAS 76531 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

Final narrative

An employee injured her back while lifting packaging film.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Parts and materials, n.e.c.

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