Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at B. Robinson, Inc., Loop 1604 and Culebra Rd., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78251
on — Hyperventilation, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee opened a manhole for fiber optic installation and immediately began hyperventilating.
An employee was attaching a pintle hitch to a truck hitch in order to load a trailer. The employee's index finger was pinched between the hitches, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee parked the utility truck. The brakes were not set and the vehicle rolled back and pinned the employee between the truck and a metal pipe resulting in a hematoma.
An employee had been stripping foundation form work. The employee was in the break area when he got up to get a drink of water and collapsed due to a heart attack.
An employee was troubleshooting the control setup for a variable air volume box above a ceiling. The employee's hand came into contact with an exposed, energized 277-volt wire that had loosened from its terminal on the box's assembly. He was shocked and fell off a ladder. His left hand passed across the ceiling grid and was lacerated. He also suffered an electrical burn to the right hand and was hospitalized.
An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.
An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder approximately 6 feet above the floor while he attached a suspended light fixture to the ceiling. The employee lost balance, and fell to the tiled floor below, sustaining blunt force trauma to his head.
An employee was inspecting the overhead area of a single-person lift and repositioning the lift through a double doorway. As they were transitioning through the doorway, they were caught between the doorframe and the vertical mast of the lift. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to the nose, left maxillary sinus, left orbital bone, and left jaw, with fractures at the maxillary sinus area.
The injured employee was performing routine maintenance on a fan belt/pulley. The injured employee and another person were moving the pulley back and forth manually to find a bearing issue. The injured employee's left ring finger got caught between the belt and the pulley wheel, resulting in a soft tissue amputation.
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.