RED RIVER ARMY DEPOT

An employee was stepping on an aluminum cross member to exit a boat in a building when his foot slipped off, causing his shin to strike the cross member bracket. The employee sustained a shin laceration and fracture.

An employee was test-driving a Humvee when it flipped over. The employee suffered head lacerations requiring stitches, as well as broken cervical bones. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was standing on a 39-inch platform and inspecting a rocket launcher that was on the back of a truck when the platform tilted and the employee fell to the ground, fracturing a leg.

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

An employee was walking on the top deck of a fire truck that was being assembled. The employee lost their balance and stepped on open, horizontally hinged doors, which could not support their weight. The employee fell 6 feet to the concrete floor and suffered fractures to their elbow and pelvis.

An employee was assessing an overhead stamping press door for alignment issues when the counterbalance moved and their left thumb was caught between the chain and the sprocket. The thumb was amputated. The door was locked out/tagged out at the time but gravitational pull was not controlled.

An employee was performing a bubble test (pressure test) on a pipeline to locate a leak when the joint elbow that was producing the leak detached and struck him. The employee sustained fractures to a rib and clavicle, as well as injuries to his spleen and lung.

An employee was installing a combat vehicle turbine engine to a dynamometer stand in a dynamometer test engine cell. While lining up the turbine engine to the stand, the employee's left arm was fractured between the engine and the face of the stand.

An employee was operating a forklift to retrieve a stack of empty containers from behind a weld cell. The forklift grabbed the stack. Then the forks tilted back, causing the top container to fall onto the forklift cage. The employee got off the forklift and went to pull the container down. The container fell on the employee's head and leg, resulting in a bump to the head and a fractured right leg.

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

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

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.