Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at TOR Texas LLC, 4825 Forest Hill Circle, FOREST HILL, TEXAS 76140
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was wrapping a trommel screener with plastic and fell onto the trommel. They became pinned while the machine continued to turn, and sustained a broken right leg.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedMaterial and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
An employee was performing maintenance on a stacker machine when their left hand got caught between a pry bar and the frame of the stacker, resulting in an amputation of the middle finger and a closed fracture of the ring finger.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
An employee was using a telehandler to move pallets of pellets from a pod. The employee exited the telehandler to pick up a sacrificial pallet that is placed under the bottom layer of pallets. When the employee turned to pull the pallet away, the top two tiers of the pod fell on him. The employee sustained a fractured ankle, three fractured ribs, and fractured vertebrae.
An employee was preparing to replace a belt on a fan drive assembly. He went to manually stop the fan and was caught by the belt. His hand was pulled into the machine and his left little fingertip was amputated.
An employee was cutting remanufactured lumber with a chainsaw when a board fell and struck his left hand, causing his left hand to move off the chainsaw. While he was moving his hand back, the chainsaw kicked back and lacerated the top of his left hand. The employee was hospitalized.
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.