San Antonio Food Bank

An employee was backing up a forklift to pick up a pallet of materials when it struck a yellow cement pole in front of a building support beam. His left hand was crushed between the forklift and the pole, resulting in amputation of a finger.

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.

A mail carrier slipped on ice and sustained a strain that required hospitalization.

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.

An employee was backing up a forklift to pick up a pallet of materials when it struck a yellow cement pole in front of a building support beam. His left hand was crushed between the forklift and the pole, resulting in amputation of a finger.

An employee was scraping paint off a building panel while on the ground. Ice fell from the roof and struck the employee. The employee sustained a broken right femur and was hospitalized.

An employee was behind a building loading wood pallets onto a trailer when they were attacked by an unknown individual, falling to the ground and losing consciousness. The employee suffered fractured ribs, contusions, and hearing loss.

An employee was manually loading a pallet jack that was parked on a lift gate when he lost his footing and fell to the ground below, resulting in four fractured ribs.

An employee was removing caulk around a pool at a stadium. Some caulk broke as he was pulling it, causing the knife/scraper in his hand to slip and cut his cornea and eyelid.

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.