Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Envoy, 2400 Aviation Drive, DFW AIRPORT, TEXAS 75261
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee slipped and fell backward on a concrete floor that was wet from the rain and broke his right arm.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 532411)
An employee was helping a coworker rearrange a crate (weighing 706 pounds) with an electric pallet jack. He was standing at the end of the forks and leaned the wooden crate to get it off the forks. His coworker then lowered the forks, which bumped the ground, and the crate tipped. He tried to stop the crate from falling, but it fell on his right leg, fracturing it between the knee and foot, and requiring hospitalization.
On November 16, 2016, an employee was performing a pre-delivery check of a boom lift near electrical lines. A loud noise was heard, and the employee was found lying in the basket with electrical burns to the head, chest, and hands. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was adjusting a "spud" when his right hand was caught and crushed between the "spud" and a locking pin. His middle finger was medically amputated.
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.