Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Acme Truck Line, Inc., 13665 FM 1944, ODEM, TEXAS 78370
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was performing a post-trip inspection of a truck when he slipped and looped his right arm through the truck handle bar to steady himself. His arm broke.
An employee was on a semi-truck trailer, adjusting straps to prepare the load for transit. The employee tripped on the straps and fell approximately 5 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their spine, arm, and hip, and they required surgery.
A commercial truck driver was standing near a truck that a forklift was loading. An aluminum rail fell on the employee's left foot and fractured it. The employee was transported to the hospital for surgery. Two toes were later amputated.
An employee unstrapped a load of machinery on a truck. The machinery had shifted in transit; it fell off the truck and struck the employee, who suffered a chest laceration and a contusion to the left hand and was hospitalized.
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 484122)
An employee was inside a trailer, loading freight, when their leg was caught in shrink wrap. The employee fell, resulting in a fracture to their right thigh bone, which required surgery.
An employee was lowering a safe stack beam inside a trailer. The beam released, causing the employee to fall back and strike his head on the trailer floor. He was hospitalized with a brain bleed and a concussion.
An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
On August 20, 2025, an employee was exiting a commercial tractor from the driver's side door when they fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured left ankle.
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.