Severe Workplace Injuries in Amarillo, Texas

Nov 17, 2025 · Autoplex Automotive LLLP Hospitalized

An employee was walking behind a counter when he tripped on a floor mat and fell to the floor, resulting in hospitalization due to a broken left femur.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Thigh(s) · Retail

Nov 13, 2025 · Walmart, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was walking away from a fuel station in a parking lot. A truck hit her and she fell, hitting her head on the ground. She suffered a concussion and fractures to the front and back of her skull and was hospitalized.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Brain · Retail

Oct 19, 2025 · Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was scraping dried glue from the top lid of a hot glue pot. His left hand slipped and came into contact with the hot glue. He then suffered burns to his hands and fingers as he tried to remove the glue. He was hospitalized.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Hand(s) and finger(s) · Manufacturing

Sep 13, 2025 · H and F Trucking Hospitalized

An employee had dumped a load of hot mix (tar) and was cleaning the interior walls of a belly dump trailer onsite. The employee was scraping the walls of the trailer when the doors articulated, breaking the securement pin and pinching the employee's legs. The employee sustained crushing injuries and severed tendons and arteries to both legs and was hospitalized.

Contact incidents · Leg(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1850754

Aug 27, 2025 · Tyson Foods, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was unloading cattle from a pen to the main drive alley. While the employee was inside the pen, a cow rammed her and knocked her down. The employee sustained a contusion to her right upper torso and three fractured ribs.

Gored, rammed by animal · Rib(s), oblique area · Manufacturing

Aug 18, 2025 · Buc-ee's Amarillo, LLC Amputation

An employee was retrieving equipment from the mop room. Their hand was in the door hinge and when the door closed, the employee's finger was amputated.

Struck by door, gate, window · Other finger(s) (other) · Retail

Aug 14, 2025 · EquipmentShare Inc. Hospitalized

At about 8:30 a.m. on August 14, 2025, an EquipmentShare employee was loading a telehandler onto a delivery truck. While the telehandler was being backed onto the truck, it went off the side. The employee suffered several broken ribs and a broken wrist.

Nonroadway noncollision jack-knifed or ran off driving surface · Trunk and other upper extremities · Real estate and rental

Aug 1, 2025 · Tyson Foods Hospitalized

An employee was trimming beef when the knife came out of his hands and punctured his abdomen as he went to grab it. The employee sustained an open abdominal wound with no internal injuries.

Injured by object held or wielded by person · Abdomen · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1843204

Jul 14, 2025 · The Bar S U Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was getting out of a car when a rattlesnake bit him below the right knee.

Venomous animal bite except "bugs" · Body systems · Construction

Jul 9, 2025 · TRP Infrastructure Services Hospitalized

An employee had been driving his work truck on the highway when it overheated. He parked it and opened the coolant cap in the engine bay. Engine coolant was ejected from the hot engine and the employee suffered second-degree burns. He was hospitalized.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Part of body · Construction

Jun 27, 2025 · Schrader Roofing, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was climbing a roof access ladder inside the job site when he fell from the ladder to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with five fractured ribs and a knee injury.

Other fall to lower level · Rib(s), oblique area · Construction

May 6, 2025 · Chambers Electrics Hospitalized

An employee was in a scissor lift, running conduit for an air conditioning system next to a garage door. The door began to rise and the scissor lift tipped over, causing the employee to fall. The employee suffered fractures to the the right hip, two ribs, and the pelvis.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment · Trunk and other lower extremities · Construction

May 5, 2025 · J Lee Milligan Inc Hospitalized

Employees were conducting maintenance on the clogged vent pipe of an asphalt distributor truck. The employees went to unclog the tank using a propane torch and a piece of steel rebar. They heated the tip of the rebar with the torch and put it inside the tank. An explosion and a fire occurred. Two employees were injured; one employee was hospitalized with fractured bones and first- and second-degree burns.

Explosion · Part of body · Construction · OSHA inspection 1824699

Apr 23, 2025 · Tyson Foods, Inc. Amputation

An employee was operating a blender in the ground beef department when frozen meat became trapped in the blender. The employee was removing the stuck meat when his right ring finger was caught in the machine, resulting in medical amputation of the finger.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing

Mar 3, 2025 · Amarillo Utility Contractors Hospitalized

An employee was using a post driver to drive a T-post into the ground. The post driver was raised, and on the downstroke it struck the employee's right thumb.

Contact incidents · Thumb(s) · Construction

Jan 9, 2025 · Builders FirstSource Hospitalized

An employee was unloading trusses from a trailer. The trusses slid off the side of the trailer and struck the employee, who suffered fractures to the ribs, femurs, left hip, and left arm.

Struck by other falling object (other) · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1798086

Jan 6, 2025 · Webber, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was disembarking a motor grader when they fell onto the blade. The employee sustained fractures to vertebrae and ribs.

Other fall to lower level · Multiple body parts · Construction

Dec 19, 2024 · Discount Tire Amputation

An employee was balancing a tire using a tire balancer machine. The employee removed the tire from the balancer and the tire's weight pulled their hand down, causing the the tire balancer shaft to amputate their left index fingertip.

Contact incidents · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Retail

Sep 11, 2024 · Tyson Foods, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was cleaning the head splitter machine and sustained a broken left arm.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Arm(s) · Manufacturing

Aug 22, 2024 · Autoplex Automotive LLLP Hospitalized

An employee was walking through the shop when he slipped on a wet spot on the concrete floor and fell, striking his back and right elbow. The employee sustained a fractured hip and was hospitalized.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Hip joint(s) · Retail

Aug 14, 2024 · Tyson Fresh Meats Hospitalized

An employee was trimming meat with a knife and sustained a laceration under his eye from the knife.

Injured by object held or wielded by person · Ears and facial region · Manufacturing

Aug 9, 2024 · Cacique Foods LLC Hospitalized

Employees were removing excess chlorinated alkaline cleaner from a 4,000-gallon tank to conduct maintenance on a broken pipe. The excess chlorinated alkaline cleaner was emptied into a chemical tote that already contained nitric phosphoric acid. The chemical mixture resulted in the formation of chlorine gas which flooded the building. Eleven employees were taken to the hospital, but only one was hospitalized for chemical poisoning/asphyxia.

Inhalation of harmful substance single episode or single shift · Body systems · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1771942

Jul 22, 2024 · Goodwill Industries of Northwest Texas Hospitalized

An employee was sorting items in a donation box when they were bit by a spider. The employee had a reaction to the bite and required surgery.

Bite or sting insects, "bugs" · Body systems · Retail

Jul 13, 2024 · Hobby Lobby Hospitalized

An employee was descending a ladder when she missed a step and fell onto her left hip on the floor, injuring it.

Other fall to lower level · Hip joint(s) · Wholesale trade

May 30, 2024 · Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was carrying plastic wrappers across the harvest floor when his glasses became fogged and impaired his vision. He tripped over the corner of a pallet and fell to the ground, striking his head on a conveyor shield (framework for a conveyor belt). He sustained pain to the head, neck, face, bilateral upper extremities and lower back, as well as weakness and facial lacerations.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing

May 21, 2024 · L.A. Fuller & Sons Hospitalized

An employee was cleaning chunks of concrete from the pulleys on a conveyor belt and was caught between the pulley and the belt, resulting in a fractured right arm.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Arm(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1751619

May 6, 2024 · Target Hospitalized

An employee was walking when they tripped and fell on the floor. The employee sustained a broken knee.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Knee(s) · Retail

May 1, 2024 · Diversified Industrial Service Company Amputation

An employee was removing a pin that was holding together a bucket and a hydraulic cylinder on a skid steer by using a hammer and a hole punch. When the pin was pushed out, the bucket shifted causing the hole punch to move and pinch their left ring finger. They sustained an amputation to the fingertip.

Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Mining, oil and gas

Mar 29, 2024 · Empirical Foods Hospitalized

An employee was performing electrical demolition work from a ladder when they fell to the floor, fracturing their leg and heel.

Other fall to lower level · Foot(feet) and leg(s) (other) · Manufacturing

Feb 26, 2024 · Animal Medical Center Hospitalized

Employee 1 was restraining a dog so employee 2 could place a catheter. The dog bit employee 1 on their their neck, chin, lip, and middle finger.

Non-venomous animal bites except "bugs" · Multiple body parts (other) · Professional and technical services