Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Nesco Resource LLC, 2717 Church St., GONZALES, TEXAS 78629
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was replacing an 80-pound grating over a hole when he dropped the grating on his right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee was loading a portable manlift onto a truck when the lifting jack's securing bolt sheared, causing the manlift to fall. It landed on the employee's right foot and they were hospitalized with a broken foot.
An employee was operating a forklift and made a sharp turn. The employee's left forearm was then caught between the forklift and an industrial shelving system (rack), fracturing the left radius and ulna bones.
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
A temporary employee was rigging secondary steel when the steel joist fell to the ground and struck his lower left leg, resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.
A temporary employee was helping set up a stage for a concert. The employee was run over by a mobile cart and sustained a toe amputation. The employee was hospitalized.
The injured employee was operating a reach truck and stopped at an intersection within a warehouse. After a brief a conversation, another employee's reach truck accelerated unexpectedly and struck the injured employee's stationary truck crushing his foot. He sustained fractures to his left foot and toes requiring hospitalization and surgery.
A temporary employee was operating a plastic strapping machine on an assembly line. The machine wrapped the employee, causing crushing injuries to their ribs and a kidney. 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.