Coreslab Structures (Texas) Inc.

A crew was working to untangle a spool of 1/2-inch wire cable. One employee's left thumb became entangled in the cable, causing an amputation/avulsion. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was setting a stress jack into place, getting ready to stress the cable. His hand was around the ram and his thumb was in the cylinder channel against the back wall. The stressing operator started moving the ram cylinder into position and the cylinder crushed the tip of the employee's left thumb against the back wall.

A dunnage board for setting concrete moved, and an employee's left hand was caught between the board and a concrete panel. The employee's middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

An employee was in the process of cleaning and setting a 20' steel siderail for a mold while standing on top of the 2.5' high mold. The employee stuck a piece of rebar into a hole of the mold to adjust the siderail's position in the mold. The employee pulled on the rebar and it came out of the hole, causing the employee to fall to the ground and fracture the right femur.

A strand of cable from prestressed concrete impaled an employee's right leg.

An employee was walking to their truck to look for a lid. When they stepped between the truck and a dock plate, they sustained a knee injury that required surgery.

An employee was standing on plant bed timbers, using a powered hand trimmer to trim the shrubs in the plant bed. The timber gave way, breaking into several pieces. The employee lost balance and fell with the trimmer in his hand. He suffered a severe laceration to the right wrist and hand.

A mail carrier slipped on ice and sustained a strain that required hospitalization.

An employee was loading phosphoric acid onto a rail car and preparing to secure the rail car for transport. While repositioning the loadout spout to secure it back to the drip pan holster on the dock, the spout contacted the handrail of the rail car, causing the employee to lose balance. The employee stepped back and their right foot entered the opening for the rail car, causing him to twist/pivot on his left leg. The employee's lower left leg was fractured.

On November 14, 2023, an employee was receiving a delivery from a truck when some of the merchandise fell from the truck s lift and struck him. He then fell to the ground and his head struck the sidewalk, resulting in an injury that required hospitalization.

An employee was stacking concrete blocks for a concrete bunker. As a block was swinging into place, the employee's left leg was pinched between two blocks, resulting in injuries to his left heel and lower leg.

An employee was patching precast concrete. He fell from a concrete wall support to the ground due to wind. He was hospitalized with fractures to his left ankle and right knee.

An employee was opening a precast concrete form and rolled his ankle. The employee required surgery on his ankle.

A driver slipped and fell to the ground while exiting his truck. He sustained a lacerated spleen.

An employee was cutting wood on a table saw when the wood got jammed. While clearing the jam, the wood moved forward and his left index and middle fingertips were 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 inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

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

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.