Texas Co-Op Inspection Program

An employee was walking back to her workstation. A forklift reversed a short distance, then completed a U-turn and struck her, running over her lower extremities. She was hospitalized with a broken ankle.

An employee was training on a jockey truck. Upon stepping out of the truck, the employee was struck by a rubber tire gantry crane, resulting in amputations of the right leg above the knee and left leg below the knee.

An employee was standing at the rear of a double pallet jack. Another double jack approached, and the employee's lower leg was caught between the two pieces of equipment. He suffered a broken tibia and fibula.

An employee was unloading large material bags on a loading dock. A forklift tine pinned the employee's foot against a pallet, causing the employee to fall and suffer a broken ankle.

An employee was pushing a container when they were struck by a forklift. The employee sustained a left leg fracture.

An employee was using a manual T-post pounder to drive in a 6-foot steel post. The employee had struck the post several times. On the last strike, the post pounder came off the post. When he brought the pounder down for the strike, his left thumb was crushed between the top of the post and the post pounder's handle.

An employee was walking down the stairs outside an apartment complex. A rodent went under her foot, causing her to fall down four steps. She suffered a displaced left hip fracture that required surgery and a left arm abrasion.

An employee was walking from the visitors center to the work trailer when she was bitten by a rattlesnake.

An employee was troubleshooting a vertical stamp press when their right hand was caught in the press, resulting in severe injury to three fingers.

An employee was checking the belt tension on an air handler when their left index finger became caught in the machine; the fingertip was amputated down to the end of the nail.

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.