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

Quality Electric Steel Casters

Ignition of clothing from controlled heat source · Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Quality Electric Steel Casters, 252 McCarty Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77029 on — Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the lumbar region.

An employee was working near an open flame heater when the flames contacted the employee's clothing and caught fire. The employee sustained second-degree burns to the hands and third-degree burns to the lower back.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Clothing, unspecified

Quality Electric Steel Casters

An employee was trying to put a cable back onto the pulley of a furnace door when his gloved left index finger was caught between the cable and the groove of the pulley. The cable tightened and the employee tried to pull his gloved hand out. At that time, the cable amputated his left index finger to the second knuckle.

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Falls Manufacturing Company/a U-Haul Co.

An employee was welding metal parts. The employee turned to the left and their work uniform came in contact with the location on the part that had just been welded. The employee's uniform ignited, causing burns to their shoulder and back.

Flint Ag & Turf

An employee was using a small propane heater when they sustained third-degree burns to the left buttock and second-degree burns to the back and neck.

Novae, LLC.

An employee was welding steel dump ramp slides. He leaned over and a previous weld caught his hoodie on fire. The employee sustained burns on his left side from the armpit to the waistline.

Pik Rite Inc.

An employee was using a fiber wheel to cut a 55-gallon drum to make a trash can. As they were cutting, sparks flew into the barrel and fire came out of a hole on the barrel, catching the employee's shirt on fire. The employee sustained burns to their abdomen and chest, requiring hospitalization.

DC Power Tong, LLC

An employee was removing tubing caps and cleaning tubing ends with solvent. Their flame-resistant pants became soaked with the cleaning solvent and were ignited by a propane torch used for removing tubing caps. The employee was hospitalized with burns to their legs.

ERICO International Corporation

An employee was working on a portable stainless-steel vessel equipped with a butterfly valve at the bottom. The employee used a crane to raise the vessel and connected an airline to the valve control. Upon activating the compressed air supply, the valve opened. While holding the bottom of the vessel with their left hand, the airline disconnected and the valve closed on their left index fingertip. The employee sustained an avulsion of the fingernail, an open nondisplaced fracture of the distal phalanx, and partial amputation of the fingertip.

Cardinal Hardware & Lumber, LLC

An employee was in training to learn how to change steel dies on a culvert machine. The employee was on top of the machine when the handheld control was activated, engaging the machine's auto-run function. The employee's feet were dragged into the roller dies, resulting in a left ankle fracture, a laceration between the ankle and knee, and amputation of the the big toe and second toe on the right foot.

Stanley Black and Decker

An employee was walking up the stairs in an office area. Their right foot caught the edge of the stair at the top of the stairwell and they fell forward. The employee sustained a neck fracture.

Cobra Anchors Corporation

An employee was operating a clipper machine and contacted maintenance when they noticed the machine was not working properly. Maintenance worked on the machine. While verifying that the machine was fixed, the employee's left index finger was amputated above the first knuckle.

Carpin Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was feeding a strip of steel into a power press when it activated and contacted the injured employee's left hand. The employee suffered amputations of the first two digits of the hand.

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.