Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sampco Companies, 1430 Valwood Parkway #130, CARROLLTON, TEXAS 75006
on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee fainted at work and hit his head on the floor.
An employee was walking to their truck to look for a lid. When they stepped between the truck and a dock plate, they sustained a knee injury that required surgery.
An employee was standing on plant bed timbers, using a powered hand trimmer to trim the shrubs in the plant bed. The timber gave way, breaking into several pieces. The employee lost balance and fell with the trimmer in his hand. He suffered a severe laceration to the right wrist and hand.
An employee was loading phosphoric acid onto a rail car and preparing to secure the rail car for transport. While repositioning the loadout spout to secure it back to the drip pan holster on the dock, the spout contacted the handrail of the rail car, causing the employee to lose balance. The employee stepped back and their right foot entered the opening for the rail car, causing him to twist/pivot on his left leg. The employee's lower left leg was fractured.
On November 14, 2023, an employee was receiving a delivery from a truck when some of the merchandise fell from the truck s lift and struck him. He then fell to the ground and his head struck the sidewalk, resulting in an injury that required hospitalization.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 561320)
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
A temporary employee was rigging secondary steel when the steel joist fell to the ground and struck his lower left leg, resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.
A temporary employee was helping set up a stage for a concert. The employee was run over by a mobile cart and sustained a toe amputation. The employee was hospitalized.
The injured employee was operating a reach truck and stopped at an intersection within a warehouse. After a brief a conversation, another employee's reach truck accelerated unexpectedly and struck the injured employee's stationary truck crushing his foot. He sustained fractures to his left foot and toes requiring hospitalization and surgery.
A temporary employee was operating a plastic strapping machine on an assembly line. The machine wrapped the employee, causing crushing injuries to their ribs and a kidney. The employee was hospitalized.
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.