Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Standard Textile Co., Inc., 3300 NAFTA Pkwy, Ste C, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS 78526
on — Fractures , affecting the Foot (feet) excluding toes.
Final narrative
An employee was leaving the facility to go home. They were walking down the front steps, missed the last step, and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right foot.
An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
Two employees were removing a service lift platform from the back of a radar system. While handling the service lift platform, employee 2 was standing on the back of the radar and lost their footing, causing the service lift platform to shift and fall. The injured employee then fell from the top of the platform electronic subsystem (PES) to the floor, approximately 56 inches. The injured employee fractured his left elbow and left hip.
An employee fell from a loading dock to the ground 2-3 feet below. She suffered a compound fracture of the left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 314120)
An employee was operating a textile processing machine. Fill material was protruding from the feed rollers under the machine; the employee was trying to pull it out when the machine activated and began to pull it back into the feed rollers. The employee's right hand was broken, lacerated, and partially degloved.
An employee was getting labels off a shelf. They went to pull a fiber from a revolving conveyor roller. The roller pulled the fiber taut, causing the fiber to amputate the employee's left thumb pad.
An employee was operating a machine that prints logos onto fabric materials when the machine began to leak ink. As the employee was attempting to remove ink from the roller using a towel, the rollers caught the towel and pulled her hand into the machine. Her right little finger was crushed and de-gloved. Her finger had to be surgically 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.