Forest or brush fire · Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center -Llano, 200 W. Ollie St., LLANO, TEXAS 78643
on — Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An EMT was responding to a grass fire and went into a home to evacuate it. The employee suffered smoke inhalation and was hospitalized.
An employee was driving a tractor to create a burn line. The tractor stalled. The employee was forced to flee through a burning field and suffered burns to his hands, arms, knees, legs, and face (about 27 percent burns overall). He was hospitalized.
Employees were fighting wildfires when the wind changed and blew the fire back onto the firefighters. The employees sustained multiple burn injuries and one firefighter was run over by a UTV while trying to escape the flames.
While actively suppressing a spot fire, a forest service employee was moving downhill when they lost their footing and fell contacting a large rock which resulted in a fractured femur.
An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
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.