Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lawler Foods, 2200 S. Houston Ave., HUMBLE, TEXAS 77396
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee had been assigned to perform a heater inspection. The employee planned to use a ladder to access the roof. The employee was found on the floor of the facility with a concussion.
An employee was unloading product from a stand-up forklift when the forklift began to slip on a wet floor. He attempted to press an emergency stop bar near the foot pedals, but his foot slipped and got caught between the forklift and a pole. His foot was lacerated and required surgery.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
An employee was performing maintenance under a kettle. When he removed a tri-clamp on a transfer line, the hot fat and broth material in the kettle poured out onto his arm. The employee was hospitalized with burns.
An employee was walking on top of boiler to close a valve. The employee fell off the boiler and landed on the floor, sustaining fractured ribs. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was inspecting a pipe in the rice cooking area near an oven. While checking for a clog, the fingers of their right hand were caught in an airlock at the base of the pipe. All the fingers were amputated except the thumb. The employee was hospitalized.
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.