Zachry Industrial, Inc.

An employee was walking on site when he tripped on a wooden survey stake that was lying flat on the ground. He fell into another employee and sustained a fracture to the tibia/fibula.

A Zachry Industrial employee was pushing a cart up a walkway. A forklift struck the employee as it finished turning around, its back right wheel hitting the employee's left foot and causing multiple fractures.

An employee was welding the bottom of a chute on the underside of a bin. Hot material came through a small gap between a gate inside the bin and the chute, contacting the employee below. The employee received second and third burns to the neck.

An employee was working to fit two 1-1/2-inch stainless steel spool pieces at a flanged connection to bolt up. To align the two spool pieces, the top section of pipe (10 feet in length) was rigged using a nylon strap choker, attached to a 1/2-ton chain. As the employee attempted to move the pipe, the load shifted in the nylon strap, causing the top section of the pipe to drop approximately 1-2 inches, which pinched the injured employee's left index finger in the flanged connection and resulted in an amputation of the finger's distal tip.

An employee was climbing a 12'8" permanent fixed ladder when he fell to the ground, landing on his left side. He suffered a fractured radius, fractured tail bone, fractured lower vertebrae, and internal bleeding.

An employee entered the cargo area on an aircraft to inspect the ceiling under the wing when they stepped into an open hole from a missing aircraft floor board. The employee twisted his right ankle, resulting in a dislocation.

An employee was walking from a job trailer to a delivery truck when he stepped into a hole and heard a pop in his right knee. The employee was hospitalized for an injury to the right knee.

An employee was moving cheese from a line into a storage tote. The employee stepped backward into a divot in the concrete floor and twisted their foot, suffering a strained Achilles tendon.

An employee was loading a forklift onto a trailer during night operation. The employee stepped down off the forklift and into a small hole in the trailer floor resulting in a fractured lower right leg and hospitalization.

An employee carried an extension ladder to the work location and was raising it to a strand. He realized that the strand hooks were not extended, so he slowly lowered the ladder to extend the strand hooks. He then stepped into a hole in the customer's yard and twisted his ankle. He was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and had surgery.

An employee was fixing a broken purlin at a worksite when they fell from the framing to the concrete floor approximately 19 feet below. The employee sustained brain bleeding and fractures to their face, vertebrae, and wrists.

Employees were removing scaffolding that was used to repair an ion exchange tank. The line was undergoing the regen process when a piece of scaffold struck a PVC pipe that transported hydrochloric acid (HCl). The injured employee was placing material inside a scaffold rack when he was sprayed in the face with HCl and sustained chemical burns to his eyes, face, chest, right arm, and left leg.

An employee was moving a ramming machine to a staging area. While using the controls on the side of the machine, there was a sudden heavy rainfall causing the equipment to slide. The ramming machine tipped over and caught the employee against the ground. The employee sustained a fracture to the right side of their pelvis and was hospitalized.

The injured employee was training a new employee on a dough machine. She went to show where the batter comes from and her right index fingertip was cut. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingertip. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

An employee was operating a roller machine on a dirt slope when the machine hit a bump and fell onto it's side. While trying to get free of the falling machine, the employee's legs were pinned by the top bar of the cage. The employee was hospitalized and his left leg was amputated. He also sustained fractures to a hand and finger.

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

A security employee was holstering her firearm when the gun discharged a bullet into her right leg. The employee was hospitalized.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.