Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Volt Power, LLC, 8588 Katy Freeway Suite 200, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77024
on — Myocardial infarction (heart attack), affecting the heart.
Final narrative
An employee had a heart attack while at work. The employee was descending a utility pole when he began to present symptoms.
HospitalizedHeartBodily conditions of injured, ill worker
An employee was loading a 60-foot power pole onto a pole trailer using a pole crane and choker chain. The chain bound up; the employee grabbed the chain and tried to unbind it. The chain released and caught the tip of the employee's left middle finger, amputating it above the first knuckle.
An employee was operating a skid loader. While his feet were resting outside the front of the cab, he lowered the bucket, which then pinched and broke both of his feet.
An employee cut the wire of a lightning arrester. The hot wire then made contact with a metal bracket and a flash occurred, causing thermal burns to the employee's face and chest.
Three employees were removing sand bags after installing a steel pole when a digger truck boom contacted electrical wiring (phases), exposing them to an electrical current that burned them. Two employees were hospitalized.
An employee had been stripping foundation form work. The employee was in the break area when he got up to get a drink of water and collapsed due to a heart attack.
An employee had been utilizing a lift assist for assembly. When assembly was complete, the lift assist was hung on a rack behind the employee and it became energized because the trigger got caught. When the employee reached for the lift assist, it sprung up, striking their face. The employee was hospitalized with a facial fracture(s) and a concussion.
An employee inspected a machine to see if water leaking from the roof was affecting it and covered the machine with plastic. The employee was descending a 6-foot A-frame ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground from the third or fourth rung from the bottom. The employee sustained a fractured left humerus.
An employee was running a steel blanking press. After hearing a rattling noise in a conveyor belt that handled scrap coming out of the press, the employee went to clear a jam on the belt. The belt caught the employee's glove, and the employee's index and middle fingers were amputated.
An employee was operating a cone/spear punch press and went to remove a metal piece when the machine cycled. His thumb got caught between the cut rear section of the converter and the internal parts remaining inside and was crushed. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was loading a coil of steel into the feeder for a 200-ton steel press when it actuated and his hand became caught in the feed rollers. The employee sustained lacerations and a fracture to his left forearm.
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.