105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

H-E-B, LP

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at H-E-B, LP, 11815 Westheimer Rd, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77077 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was slicing pepperoni with a deli slicer. The slicer cut her left middle and ring fingers, causing amputations to both.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Food slicers

H-E-B, LP

Two employees were pulling a stock cart filled with product out of a meat cooler. One employee pushed the cart and the other employee's right arm was caught between the cart and an asset-protector bollard. He sustained a fractured upper right arm.

H-E-B, LP

An employee was cleaning the produce production room. The employee was spraying a grease cutter chemical when it mixed with an antimicrobial agent in a jug under a sink. The injured employee was called over to assess the situation, picked up the jug of antimicrobial agent, and inhaled the vapors from the chemical mixture. The injured employee was hospitalized.

H-E-B, LP

An employee was processing meat on a meat saw. His hand slipped and came into contact with a circular blade, which lacerated his right index finger, resulting in a partial amputation. The employee was hospitalized. The machine was not guarded at the time.

H-E-B, LP

An employee was standing on the operator's platform of a powered pallet jack. During a turn, the employee fell to the warehouse floor and landed on his left hip, resulting in a fracture to his upper femur.

H-E-B, LP

An employee was operating a meat saw and sustained a partial amputation of the right middle finger including the fingernail.

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Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

United Natural Foods Inc.

An employee was making a delivery in a truck. As he exited the truck, he fell on a step and then to the ground, resulting in a fractured tibia.

Performance Food Group, Inc.

An employee was picking items from the freezer section of the warehouse. When he stepped down onto the floor, he turned on the planted foot, and felt a "pop" and pain in his knee. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated knee and two torn tendons. He required surgery to repair the tendons.

Martin Brower Company LLC

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when it pinned his right ankle against some racking. The ankle was broken and he was hospitalized.

Certco, Inc.

At 7:40 a.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was unloading a bulkhead at a dock door. As he pulled the bulkhead out of a trailer, its plastic lip caught on the dock plate, causing the employee to fall and twist his left leg, knee, and hip. The hip was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring 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.