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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

H-E-B

Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at H-E-B, 8801 South Congress Ave., AUSTIN, TEXAS 78745 on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Ankle(s).

An employee was emptying a trash can. A piece of glass in the trash can cut her lower left leg near the ankle and severed a tendon. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Chips, shards, fibers glass

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An employee was walking in a parking lot when she missed a step, fell, and struck her head against a concrete curb, resulting in a laceration to the bridge of her nose that required stitches, as well as hospitalization due to a possible brain bleed and a concussion.

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An employee was cutting a 15-pound piece of ribeye on a saw. The blade of the saw contacted the employee's right hand causing a partial amputation to the middle finger and injury to the index finger requiring stitches.

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An employee was in the cooler, loading a cart with boxed meat products. The employee was exiting the cooler with the cart when his right hand got caught between the cart and the doorframe of the cooler. The employee's right middle finger was amputated.

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An employee was setting up a floor display when they slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured left knee.

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An employee slipped on a berry/grape and fell in a walk-in cooler. They were hospitalized with a fractured right knee and required surgery.

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RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

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.

Rae Corporation

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.

Red Dot Corporation

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.

Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc.

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.

RJV Construction

An employee was rigging I-beams. An I-beam slid off the stack of I-beams and fractured the employee's leg.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

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.

Giant Food Stores

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.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

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.

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.