Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at H-E-B plus!, 2508 East Riverside Drive, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78741
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was utilizing an electric pallet jack to stock shelving when his right little finger got caught between the pallet jack and the shelving, resulting in amputation.
An employee was cutting meat using a meat saw when his right hand slipped and the blade contacted his thumb, resulting in a partial amputation of the knuckle.
An employee was training on an rolling container carrier on the dry, non-frozen storage side of the distribution center. She made a turn around the end cap and her right foot struck the rail protecting the endcap racking. The employee's foot was fractured.
An employee was a passenger in a utility vehicle that was driving up a hill on a wooded trail. As the vehicle made a right turn, three fingers on the employee's right hand were caught against a tree and fractured.
Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.
An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.
An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.
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.