Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Avulsions, enucleations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at King Ranch, Inc., 12 Miles East FM 2045, KINGSVILLE, TEXAS 78363
on — Avulsions, enucleations, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
Employees had shut down and locked out a cotton gin lint cleaner to clean it. An employee entered the lint cleaner and his glove was caught by the teeth of the cleaner. His glove was pulled off and the employee sustained a de-gloving injury to the top of the right hand.
An employee was in a cow pen, freeing a heifer that was stuck in the bottom cable of the pen fence. Once the heifer became untangled and returned to her feet, she charged at the employee and headbutted his lower left leg from behind. He suffered a compound fracture to the tibia and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
Two employees were hooking up a hydro excavation trailer to clean out water troughs. The injured employee was guiding employee 2 while she was backing up the truck to the trailer. The injured employee then began lowering the jack of the trailer to connect the trailer to the ball hitch on the truck. The trailer would not come down onto the ball hitch. The injured employee was manually adjusting the trailer when it came down and caught fingers on his left hand between the trailer s tongue and the ball hitch resulting in fractures.
An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.
An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.
An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.
An employee stood on a conveyor wall to unclog the cotton feeder. The employee fell on the moving conveyor and fractured his right arm. The employee was hospitalized.
Multiple employees were using baling buckets to remove 750 gallons of 150-degree hydraulic oil out of a pit in a confined space for approximately 5.5 hours. The injured employee was standing on a ladder performing this task when they fell feet-first into the hydraulic oil pit, resulting in burns on both legs.
An employee was removing cotton build-up from a roller gin when their hand was pulled into the rollers. The employee sustained soft tissue damage to their right hand and forearm.
An employee was using an electric module tarp roller to roll up used module tarps for storage. The employee's thumb became caught in the module tarp roller and his arm was pulled into the roller bar. The employee sustained a fractured left wrist.
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.