Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at AAA Cooper Transportation, Inc., 20125 E. FM 942, CAMDEN, TEXAS 75934
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was using a ladder to cover a load of wood chips. A truck was trying to get by, so the employee got off the ladder and moved it out of the way. As the truck passed by, it struck the employee causing fractures to his lower right leg.
HospitalizedLower leg(s)Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
More severe injuries at AAA Cooper Transportation, Inc.
On February 26, 2022, an employee parked a truck at a loading area and began using an electric stand-up pallet jack to unload it. As he backed out of the trailer, the dock plate popped up, causing him to fall to the ground. The rear of the pallet jack ran over both of his feet; the left foot was sprained and the right foot was broken.
On February 24, 2022, a truck driver was standing in his trailer, doing paperwork as part of a delivery. He fell out of the trailer to the ground 4 feet below and suffered a neck fracture.
On December 3, 2021, at the unloading dock, an employee was using a forklift to unload boxes from a trailer onto a pallet. As he was backing out of the truck's trailer and dock plate, the employee's left leg hit the dock's guardrails, resulting in a fractured fibula and tibia that required hospitalization.
While standing on a loading dock to the side of a forklift, an employee was bumped by another forklift, fell down, and sustained a deep laceration to his left leg below the knee, requiring stitches.
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An employee was leaf blowing to help clean the road. An excavator began backing up and caught the employee's foot, causing her to fall to the ground. The employee sustained the loss of a tooth, abrasions to the face and hand, and a cut to the foot.
A crew was setting up to clean out a squeegee machine. The controls of the machine were struck by a spray wand, shifting the machine from park to reverse. When the machine was started, it lunged backward and caught an employee s leg against a water truck. The employee's leg was fractured.
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An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.
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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.