Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CEVA Logistics, 950 Loma Verde Dr, EL PASO, TEXAS 79936
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
A temporary employee was pushing a pallet jack. When she tried to kick a piece of broken wood hanging from the corner of a pallet, a nail pierced the bottom of her foot. She was hospitalized.
An employee was walking to their car in the parking lot after work when he fell to the ground. He stood up and took five more steps before collapsing again. The employee was hospitalized with multiple breaks in his right knee.
An employee was standing near a tug cart when a tugger forklift was driving by and the carts attached to the tugger struck the stationary tug cart, pushing it into the injured employee. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration and fractured leg.
An employee was opening the trailer doors. The employee opened the right-side door. Then the employee opened the left side door, and product fell out, causing a gash on their head. The employee then fell and fractured a leg.
An employee was unnesting tote bags when her grip slipped and the back of her left hand hit a box containing a steel step stool that was adjacent to the tote bags. The employee's hand was fractured.
An employee was cleaning up and putting away equipment when the second toe on her right foot was stubbed on a fixture, resulting in hospitalization and a subsequent amputation of the toe.
An employee was walking when he tripped on a concrete vault lid, jamming his big toe into the tip of his steel toe boots. The employee's big toe was medically amputated.
An employee was cleaning a bathroom. As the employee bent over, the corner of a sink hit the employee's right eyeball, causing an injury that required hospitalization and surgery.
On September 23, 2023, an employee was cleaning near a conveyor when they knelt with their right knee on the floor. Their knee contacted a small piece of glass on the floor, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 493190)
An employee was assisting with maintenance and servicing a conveyor that was making an unusual noise. The employee's right arm got caught in the conveyor between a belt and a roller. Their right hand and arm were crushed, resulting in amputation of the arm.
An employee was using a skid loader to clean an area of loose debris (straw shed). He was lowering the bucket when the arms/bucket of the skid loader pinned his feet against the step of the loader. The employee sustained fractures to both feet and was hospitalized.
A Merit Logistics employee was pushing an egg crate out of a trailer. While working to get it over the lip of the dock, she lost her footing. Crates fell on her, breaking her tibia.
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.