Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at LOAD TRAIL LLC, 220 FM 2216, SUMNER, TEXAS 75486
on — Fractures, affecting the head and trunk.
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Final narrative
An employee was installing a cylinder underneath a trailer when a bolt on the conveyor came off and the trailer's back end came down and struck the employee. The employee suffered a fractured skull and broken ribs.
An employee was operating a plasma cutting machine when his feet were crushed between the track and the gantry of the machine. He was hospitalized for a fractured right ankle.
An employee was pushing a trailer that was resting on a sawhorse back into the weld area. His hands were on the sawhorse while pushing. The sawhorse stopped moving and the trailer shifted catching his hand in a pinch point between the trailer and the sawhorse. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the right little finger.
Employees were installing a removable jack onto the front of a trailer. The injured employee was aligning the bolt holes as the jack was being pushed into position. As the jack slid into place, his right index fingertip was amputated.
An employee was in the assembly warehouse taking a count of palletized product. Fender backs (raw material used in making finished product) slid off a pallet onto the employee's lower left leg. The employee sustained a fractured fibula and a dislocated ankle.
An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.
An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.
An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.
An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 336214)
An employee was working to dislodge a small piece of wood that had become stuck in a wood molder. The employee's glove became entangled in the machine's cutter head and the employee suffered a partial amputation to a finger on the right hand.
An employee was rolling a piece of structural channel on a roller table when the channel collided with steel tubing that was sitting on the roller table. One of the employee's fingers was hanging down over the piece of channel, and when it collided with the tube, their fingertip was severed. Approximately half of an inch of the employee's fingertip was amputated.
On November 21, 2024, an employee was operating a punch press running stone guard brackets. The press cycled while they were placing a part into the die, crushing their right hand. The employee was hospitalized with crushing injuries to their ring finger and an amputation of the little fingertip, and they required surgery.
An employee was inspecting and photographing a trailer unit when his left index finger was pinched between a hardware bar and the floor, resulting in a partial amputation.
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.