Big Tex Trailers

An employee was using a pry bar to place a stringer plate into alignment with the frame when the parts snapped into alignment and the employee's right middle finger and index fingertip were pinched between the parts. The employee's middle finger was lacerated and their index fingertip was partially amputated and fractured.

A forklift was lifting a double stack of trailer fenders when the top pallet of the stack fell onto the forklift. The pallet broke and trailer fenders fell onto the injured employee, who was standing nearby supervising the operation. The employee sustained a broken nose and two broken ribs, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was loading trailers on a semi-trailer for shipment. While climbing off the trailer, the employee's wedding ring got caught, de-gloving the finger.

An employee lost the tip of his right ring finger when it was caught in the trailer door.

An employee's middle fingertip was amputated while he was lifting and moving two pieces of metal.

A crew was pulling a 4-inch plastic gas pipe off a reel and straightening it for installation. The injured employee stepped up on the trailer to cut the last band holding the pipe in the coil on the reel. As he turned to step off the trailer, the end of the pipe rotated and sprung out of the cage surrounding the coil, striking the employee on the side of the head and knocking him off of the trailer into the roadway. The employee suffered head trauma that required hospitalization.

An employee and a co-worker were performing a pick inside a clear well. They rigged the skid pan that was full of broken concrete. When lifting, the load began to swing toward a wall. The employee tried to stop the skid pan from swinging and was struck by the pan, resulting in fractures to their left hip and wrist.

The employee had just completed refueling a lattice crane that was breaking up material and was winding the fuel hose back into the fuel truck when he was struck by the catwalk/stairs of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his backside, possible internal bleeding, and a broken hip.

An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.

An employee was lifting four bags of a lime blend weighing approximately 10,000 pounds using a crane. The load swung and pinned the employee against a structural I-beam, resulting in fractures to the hip and pelvis.

An employee was on a 20-foot ladder cleaning tile on the side of a building. The ladder slipped and he fell to the ground. He landed on his feet, resulting in hospitalization with fractures to both feet.

An employee was putting away stock in the aisles and began driving his order picker down the aisle with a pallet of items loaded on the forks. The pallet struck an upright of the warehouse racking and was pushed toward the employee, causing him to fall. The front edge of the pallet drove his right leg into the front panel of the order picker, fracturing his right leg above the ankle.

An employee was completing an inspection on a truck when the flywheel amputated their fingertip.

The injured employee was vacuuming out the trunk of a parked vehicle. Another employee was operating a vehicle when the brakes failed and the vehicle struck the back of the injured employee's legs pushing him into the vehicle he was vacuuming. The employee sustained a fractured leg.

An employee got out of his truck and closed the door when his right hand got caught in the door, resulting in a broken ring finger and an amputation of the middle fingertip that required hospitalization.

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.