HEREFORD, TEXAS—
Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
Gored or rammed by animal · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Caviness Beef Packers, LTD, 3255 W. Hwy. 60, HEREFORD, TEXAS 79045 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was driving cattle in a pen corral. The employee climbed up a pen rail to keep from being rammed by an aggressive cow. The cow's horns caught his boot and pulled him to the ground inside the pen. He suffered fractures to the left tibia and fibula, as well as an injured left shoulder.
More severe injuries at Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
HEREFORD, TEXAS—
Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
An employee was performing maintenance on a gearbox. His left hand was caught by moving parts inside the box, and the tips of his ring and little fingers were amputated.
HEREFORD, TEXAS—
Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
An employee was replacing a cable on a sprocket on the door of a shipping dock when the door braces shifted and caused weight/tension to be put on the cable. His left hand was caught between the chain and sprocket, resulting in a crush injury to the middle and ring fingers and amputation of the ring fingertip.
HEREFORD, TEXAS—
Caviness Beef Packers Ltd.
An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a chain line when his right hand was pinched by the chain, resulting in a fracture.
HEREFORD, TEXAS—
Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
While pushing hindquarters through a band saw, an employee's left index fingertip was amputated.
HEREFORD, TEXAS—
Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
An employee was about to use a captive bolt gun to stun a bull that was down in a cattle pen. The bull got up and knocked the employee to the ground; the stun gun went off and struck the employee in the left thigh. The employee suffered a broken femur.
View Caviness Beef Packers, LTD's full OSHA safety record →
Similar incidents · Same event type
RISING CITY, NEBRASKA—
Tuls Dairy - Butler County Dairy, LLC
An employee entered a pen in the maternity barn to bottle-feed a calf. A cow spun around and head butted the employee into the metal enclosure fence three times. The employee sustained a punctured liver.
SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA—
Cargill
An employee was moving cattle when they were rammed by a cow. The employee sustained fractures to their L2 and L5 vertebrae, left sacral wing, and pelvis. They also suffered internal hemorrhaging in the abdominal.
OPTIMA, OKLAHOMA—
Seaboard Foods LLC
An employee was loading hogs onto a trailer. After they were loaded, he was pinning the gate when one of the hogs charged and pinned the employee between the gate and the wall. The employee sustained a collapsed lung.
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS—
Lonestar Beef Processors, L.P.
An employee was moving cattle from a pen to a tub when a bull got around the cattle guard. The employee climbed over the cattle guard to move away from the bull and the bull struck his arm, resulting in a fracture.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA—
Pillen Family Farms Transport, LLC
An employee was checking boars. A boar struck the employee's left leg, causing a cut to the thigh.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 311611)
AMARILLO, TEXAS—
Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
An employee was scraping dried glue from the top lid of a hot glue pot. His left hand slipped and came into contact with the hot glue. He then suffered burns to his hands and fingers as he tried to remove the glue. He was hospitalized.
IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO—
Intermountain Packing, LLC
An employee was in a scissor lift approximately 20 feet above the ground to place a plastic tarp on a catwalk in order to catch condensation. They positioned the lift opposite the work area and stepped out of the scissor lift onto an I-beam. The employee fell from the I-beam to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a skull fracture on the right side of their head and injuries to the chest and both eyes.
DODGE CITY, KANSAS—
Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation
A maintenance employee was called to look at a pallet conveyor machine where a chain had fallen off a sprocket wheel. When the employee grabbed the loose chain, a light sensor caused the machine to restart. This created a pinch point between the chain and sprocket that caught the employee's left little finger. The finger was surgically amputated at the second knuckle.
SOUDERTON, PENNSYLVANIA—
JBS Souderton, Inc.
The injured employee was standing by one of the stationary computers along the wall. There was a half-pallet located approximately 3 feet behind the employee that consisted of 12-pound boxes stacked six boxes high. A forklift was transporting a pallet that came in contact with the stationary pallet behind the injured employee, causing four boxes to fall and contact their legs. The injured employee was hospitalized with leg injuries.
CRETE, NEBRASKA—
Smithfield Foods
An employee was using a box strapping machine to place straps on boxes when his right middle finger was caught in the machine, resulting in an open fracture to the distal phalanx.
More severe injuries in TEXAS
EAST BERNARD, TEXAS—
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.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS—
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.
HOOKS, TEXAS—
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.
LOLITA, TEXAS—
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.
HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS—
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.