Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Locke Investments, LLC, 700 Almeda Genoa Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS 77047
on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Lower leg(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was loading a light pole base onto the forks of a forklift when the weight of the base caused it to come back toward him and his leg became pinched between the light pole base and another light pole base that was on the ground. The employee sustained injury to his left leg just above the ankle and was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Structural blocks stone and masonry
An employee was cutting rebar with a rebar cutting and bending machine. The rebar lifted his left hand against the top guard of the point of operation, causing lacerations to the middle and ring fingers.
An employee was flipping a concrete slab, tread side up, in preparation for shipping. As he was flipping the concrete slab, the load shifted and started to swing. The employee s hand was caught between the slab and an adjacent object. The employee was hospitalized with a hand laceration.
An employee was lifting a cover for a hole using a crane. A cheater bar that was inside the cover fell and struck the employee's face causing a laceration requiring hospitalization.
The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.
An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.
An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.
An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.
An employee was stacking concrete blocks for a concrete bunker. As a block was swinging into place, the employee's left leg was pinched between two blocks, resulting in injuries to his left heel and lower leg.
An employee was patching precast concrete. He fell from a concrete wall support to the ground due to wind. He was hospitalized with fractures to his left ankle and right knee.
An employee was cutting wood on a table saw when the wood got jammed. While clearing the jam, the wood moved forward and his left index and middle fingertips were amputated.
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.