Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Frontier Waste Solutions, 21000 East Hwy 6, ALVIN, TEXAS 77511
on — Concussions, affecting the Brain.
Final narrative
An employee was backing up a garbage truck at a landfill to empty the truck. A concrete platform gave way, causing the vehicle to slide down into the landfill pit 20 feet below. The employee was flung backward and forward, hitting his head on the dashboard of the vehicle. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.
An employee was servicing a container at the rear of the truck and went to return the trash can across the street when they were struck by a vehicle. The employee sustained a fractured neck.
An employee was jacking up a truck to make repairs on the vehicle suspension. While installing the jack, it slipped and caught their right hand between the frame of the truck and the jack resulting in a partial amputation of the middle finger.
On January 17, 2024, an employee loaded a trash cart onto the handles of a garbage truck. She pushed the automatic tipper lever to move the cart up into the truck when her arm got caught in the cart, pushing her into the hopper of the garbage truck. Her head was pinned between the garbage cart and the side of the truck. The employee suffered a laceration to the right side of the head.
An employee was placing a truck on jack stands when a jack slipped and pinned the employee's hand, resulting in a crush injury to the left ring finger.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
An employee was operating a compact open-cab skid steer. As he backed up, the skid steer's bucket lowered onto his leg, pinning it against the body of the skid steer. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery to the ankle/lower leg.
An employee was operating a rubber-tracked crawler carrier to offload and place timber mats that are used for vehicular and equipment access on a utility right-of-way. The offloading of the mats from the dump bed caused the front end of the equipment to elevate and then come back down with force. The employee sustained compression fractures to two vertebrae in their lower back and was hospitalized.
An employee was utilizing a utility task vehicle (UTV) to patrol a 138 kV transmission line in a right-of-way. The UTV drove into a washout hole that was approximately 6 feet deep and obstructed by vegetation. The employee sustained a dislocated shoulder, a fractured left humerus, back pain, and a strained ankle. He was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 562211)
An employee was kneeling beneath a loading dock, inspecting the area for future installation of an automatic dock plate. The existing manual dock plate fell off the dock and onto the employee, fracturing their hip.
On June 24, 2025, at 3:25 p.m., an employee had just finished dumping his truck at the recycling facility when they took a break in their truck. They began to experience signs of heat-related illness and left the cab of the truck before temporarily losing consciousness and collapsing. The employee was hospitalized due to dehydration, heat exhaustion, and acute kidney distress.
An employee was descending a ladder. As he stepped down, his foot landed on a pipe, which caused him to lose traction and fall. He sustained multiple torn ligaments, a shattered tibia, and a compound fracture to the heel bone. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was unloading a truckload of sulfuric acid/soda ash water mixture at a water treatment plant. Residual mixture in a hose cap spilled onto his right forearm, burning it. He was hospitalized.
An employee was conducting a rope swing transfer from a platform to a barge. The employee rolled his right ankle when landing due to the height differential of the landing position. The ankle was fractured.
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.