Pedestrian struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident · Crushing injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Savage Refinery Services, 5000 Bayway Dr., BAYTOWN, TEXAS 77520
on — Crushing injuries, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was loading railcars with petroleum coke. As he was coupling up the railcars, his left foot got caught under the railcar. He called out to the locomotive operator to back the railcar in the other direction to relieve the pressure off his foot, which was crushed in the process and required hospitalization.
An employee was using a wrench to adjust a skirt board on a coke conveyor because product was falling off the conveyor. The conveyor caught the wrench, which then struck the employee's left index finger. The employee's fingertip was removed. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to reattach the fingertip.
On December 4, 2023, an employee was helping to move a hopper car. He was climbing the stairs to go to the other side of the hopper car when he slipped. His right foot went under the hopper car's wheel and a toe was amputated.
An employee was working between railcars on an active railroad track to connect the airbrake. Another employee moved the railcars, striking and running over the employee resulting in amputation of both legs.
On March 25, 2022, an employee had just detached a string of empty rail cars away from some loaded cars. The string of detached cars was being taken ahead, and the employee began pulling the knuckle of a rail car into the open position. The string of detached cars then momentarily came back, and the employee was pinched between two cars. The employee suffered a broken right hip and was hospitalized.
At about 8:40 p.m., two employees (a groundsman and a switchman) were working in a rail yard, setting rail cars to be released from the site. The groundsman was watching the switchman connect an end-of-train device on the string of rail cars. While he was on the adjacent track, a locomotive on that track moved forward and struck him, knocking him over, injuring his right foot, and amputating his left leg above the knee.
On June 25, 2020, an employee was acting as a groundman to assist the locomotive driver in staging cars in the blast building. As the railcar was moving past a beam that is part of the building, the employee became pinned between the beam and the railcar and sustained a fractured pelvis.
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