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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Brookshire Grocery Company

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Brookshire Grocery Company, 2107 South Loop 256, PALESTINE, TEXAS 75801 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was cutting pork chops with a bandsaw. The sawblade amputated the employee's right index finger.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Butchering machinery

Brookshire Grocery Company

An employee was loading up a stock cart. The employee stepped onto a resting pallet and grabbed a case of water to move onto the stock cart. As they stepped off the pallet, their heel got stuck on a piece of plastic shrink wrap, causing them to trip and fall onto the concrete floor. The employee landed on their hip and required hip surgery.

Brookshire Grocery Company

An employee was operating a walk-behind forklift when her foot was pinned between the forklift and a pallet, resulting in a leg injury.

Brookshire Grocery Company

An employee was exiting the cash office after receiving change when she tripped over boxes and fell to the ground. She struck her face on the ground, resulting in multiple fractures to her face and nose.

Brookshire Grocery Company

An employee was on a center-ride electric pallet jack retrieving empty pallets to move to another area. The employee's body struck a bollard, resulting in a left thigh contusion.

Brookshire Grocery Company

An employee was cutting boneless pork sirloin chops using a meat band saw when the saw came into contact with his right hand, resulting in an amputation of the index finger.

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Leidy's LLC

An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

Swift Beef Company

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.

Kitchen Tune-Up

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.

BBCJ LUMBER LLC

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.

Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc.

An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

T G Meat Center LLC

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.

Professional Flooring Supply

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.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

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.