Exposure to harmful substances or environments, unspecified · Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Quality Brickworks, 301 Whoop 121, BELTON, TEXAS 76513
on — Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee was mixing mortar when he had trouble breathing. He was hospitalized for a possible allergic reaction.
An employee was about to climb down from a scaffold when he fell onto a concrete slab 6 feet below. He landed on his shoulder and head, his hard hat cracking on the ground; he suffered bleeding to the left ear and a concussion, as well as bruising to the left shoulder. He was hospitalized.
An employee was walking backwards alongside a forklift to help steady the load (scaffold component). He tripped and fell and was run over by the forklift injuring his right thigh and left leg.
An employee suffered a reaction to an unknown object or substance, resulting in a body rash, swelling of the throat, and vomiting that required hospitalization.
An employee was trying to identify the location of a blockage in a pneumatic line. Two pipes in the line came apart, expelling batch mix onto the employee. The employee suffered abrasions and burns to the head, neck, and back.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
A maintenance employee was 6 feet up an 8-foot ladder to hand someone a bucket when he lost his balance and fell backward to the tile floor. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the back of his head that required staples, a concussion, and three fractured neck vertebrae.
An employee was sitting on the tailgate of a moving pickup truck while holding the handles of a wheelbarrow. The employee fell off the tailgate and struck his head on the asphalt. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured skull and a brain bleed.
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.