105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Amspec LLC

Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle · Sprains, strains, tears unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Amspec LLC, 3801 Gti Blvd, GALVESTON, TEXAS 77550 on — Sprains, strains, tears unspecified, affecting the Knee(s).

An employee was boarding a barge. As he stepped onto the gangway, it shifted and the handrail he was using collapsed, causing him to fall and strike his right knee against the gangway. His patellar tendon was torn.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Barge

Amspec LLC

An employee was running a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) standard with laboratory equipment when the equipment was knocked off the counter, causing the quick connect to fail. LPG then released and was ignited by the equipment's heating element. The employee received first and second degree burns on the right and left hands.

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Amdrill, Inc.

An employee was preparing a barge for the end of a day's drilling operations. He was setting a spud on the barge when the spud struck him and broke his right leg.

BRINY BREEZES

A team of employees was moving boats from one slip in a marina to another using rope. An employee slipped while moving around in a boat and suffered a broken left femur.

AHTNA Marine & Construction

The injured employee was standing by the controls for the electric spud system on the barge, preparing to raise the spuds. Meanwhile, an excavator was moving a mat on the deck. As the excavator swung from port to starboard, it's counterweight struck the injured employee s shoulder, causing them to lose balance and fall against the spud controls. The employee sustained bruises and contusions to their right shoulder and chest.

MASSMAN CONSTRUCTION CO.

An employee was inserting dogbone links (4 feet 9 inches in length) into the slots between sectional barges to connect the barges. A dogbone link became stuck in the slot and needed to slide down approximately 1 foot to be seated. The employee went to lift the dogbone link up and adjust it when the link became free. A burr on the flange of the link snagged the employee's right glove. The link slid into a seated position and the employee's right middle finger was caught between the top surface of the barge and the top flange of the dogbone link. The finger was partially amputated at the midsection of the distal phalanx.

Gloucester Terminals LLC

An employee was working to unload cargo from a ship. A steel coil contacted the employee's left leg. The lower leg was fractured.

GCP Laboratories, Inc

An employee was inspecting the tension of a belt on the motor of a labeler machine when his right index finger got caught in a pulley. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Cheminstruments, Inc.

An employee was feeding stainless steel (2 x 6) sheet metal into a shear machine inside the warehouse. The pressure plate on the shear machine crushed the employee's right index fingertip. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip pad.

Elementar Americas Inc.

An employee was unpackaging fuel samples onto a table when they started having an allergic reaction resulting in facial swelling, red/itchy skin, hives, and respiratory symptoms. They were hospitalized.

Tower Laboratories, Ltd

An employee was advancing a sheet of foil through the knife on a pouch packaging machine when the knife cut his left index finger. The employee sustained an approximately 4-millimeter fingertip amputation.

New Erie Scientific LLC

An employee was carrying an object when they tripped over a bucket and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured lower back and elbow.

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.