Severe Workplace Injuries in Brownsville, Texas

Nov 17, 2025 · Livingston International, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee jumped from the back of a trailer and landed awkwardly on the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their lower left leg.

Other fall to lower level · Lower leg(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1861703

Nov 15, 2025 · CCC Group, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was guiding a 25-foot-tall formwork that was being removed from a concrete wall with a crane. One of the turnbuckle braces (weighing approximately 300 pounds) disconnected and struck the employee, resulting in a laceration to the back of his head, fractured vertebrae, a fractured left hip, and a fractured left tibia.

Struck by dislodged or detached object(s) · Multiple body parts · Construction

Oct 17, 2025 · All Star Metals, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was cutting metal with a torch. A piece of metal struck the employee's left foot, causing multiple fractures to metatarsal(s). The employee was hospitalized.

Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object · Foot (feet) excluding toes · Manufacturing

Aug 28, 2025 · Acadian Contractors Inc Hospitalized

An employee had been directing plate installs and was finishing up his shift when he became lightheaded. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness and dehydration.

Exposure to environmental heat outdoor · Body systems · Construction

Jul 27, 2025 · Gulf Stream Marine Amputation

An employee was working inside the cargo hold of a cargo ship, discharging steel slabs. The slabs (approximately 4 feet by 20 feet) were being hoisted by a powered industrial truck (PIT) equipped with an electromagnetic lifting device. The lifting device failed and released a steel slab that struck the employee's right foot. The employee sustained injuries to their big toe, including partial amputation.

Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle · Toes(s), toenail(s) · Transportation and warehousing

Jun 24, 2025 · Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Hospitalized

A mobile crane tipped over. The crane operator jumped from the cab and suffered a fractured wrist and pelvis, as well as a minor head injury.

Nonroadway noncollision vehicle overturn · Trunk and other upper extremities · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1833452

Jun 9, 2025 · Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Hospitalized

A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. employee was setting up equipment for a welding operation, working from a ladder leaning against a domed vehicle structure. The ladder became unstable at the base, causing the employee to fall about 6 feet and strike their head on the metal leg of a work platform. The employee suffered a concussion and a subdural hematoma and was hospitalized.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 30 feet · Brain · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1830956

Apr 26, 2025 · VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER Hospitalized

An employee was assisting a nurse to move a patient up in bed when she felt pain in her ribs and back. The employee was hospitalized with a possible back fracture.

Overexertion while providing medical or custodial care · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1821192

Mar 19, 2025 · Performance Contractors Inc. Hospitalized

A crew was using a chain fall system to rig up a hard stop (metal structural support weighing 695 lbs.). The injured employee was guiding it into position. The hard stop shifted and their right hand was caught between the suspended hard stop and the adjacent structural wall, resulting in fractured ring and little fingers.

Struck by suspended or swinging objects (other) · Other finger(s) (other) · Construction

Jan 31, 2025 · Texian Fence LLC Hospitalized

An employee was bending over to pick fence pickets up off the ground. He contacted the tip of a nail gun while standing up, causing it to discharge a nail. The employee sustained a puncture to the head just above the ear.

Struck by discharged object or substance · Scalp · Construction

Jan 24, 2025 · Standard Textile Co., Inc. Hospitalized

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.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Foot (feet) excluding toes · Manufacturing

Nov 17, 2024 · Southwest Key Programs, Inc. - Casa El Presidente Hospitalized

An employee was walking down a hallway when they tripped over a metal bench and fell to the floor. The employee suffered a fracture to their right humerus, a bruised knee, pain in their right shoulder and back, and an inability to stand up.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Upper arm(s) · Health care and social assistance

Aug 13, 2024 · Southwest Key Programs Hospitalized

An employee working as a travel companion was pumping gas at a gas station when she slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a fracture to her tibial plateau. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Knee(s) · Health care and social assistance

Jul 10, 2024 · Larsen-Tella LLC Hospitalized

An employee was putting a screw into position on a production part to weld with a spot welder. The spot welder tip crushed the employee's left thumb tip against the part and the injury required surgery.

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing

Jul 1, 2024 · EMR (USA Holdings) Inc. dba International Shipbreaking Ltd. LLC Limited, L.L.C Hospitalized

An employee was inside a docked barge cutting the rudder. Another employee was on the deck of the barge cutting the decking above and during the cut, the barge piece broke off and the employee below was crushed and sustained multiple injuries requiring hospitalization. The piece of the barge that fell was 20 feet, 4 inches x 10 feet, 4 inches.

Struck by dislodged or detached object(s) · Multiple body parts · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1759665

Jun 29, 2024 · Southwest Key Programs Hospitalized

An employee was walking from one room to another when she slipped on spilled water and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right ankle.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Ankle(s) · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1760328

May 8, 2024 · Dix Industries, Inc Amputation

An employee was walking toward a stacker machine to get a strap off the rear tire when he was struck and run over by a stacker machine. He sustained multiple severe injuries including crushed legs, an injury to his lower left torso, and a lacerated left arm. The injuries resulted in an amputation to the employee's left arm and leg.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Upper and lower extremities (other) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1747198

May 7, 2024 · Sure Steel, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was laying on a steel beam when a rough-terrain boom lift struck the beam with a rear tire and ran over his left thigh. He sustained a compound fracture to his femur.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Thigh(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1747507

Apr 22, 2024 · Gulf Stream Marine, Inc. Hospitalized

The injured employee was removing a piece of 4" x 4" lumber from steel slab cargo in the yard area while another employee was operating a heavy-duty powered industrial truck (PIT) to lift a steel slab with magnets using a reach stacker. The lift was reversing with the cargo hoisted when the rear tire of the PIT hit a pothole and caused the slab to swing back and forth. As a result, the steel slab struck the injured employee in his abdominal area. The employee suffered a pelvic fracture, fractures to the L4 and L5 vertebrae, and a possible bladder contusion.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area · Multiple trunk locations · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1743897

Apr 9, 2024 · Space Exploration Technologies Amputation

An employee was closing the doors to an industrial storage cabinet when their right index fingertip was pinched in the attached cabinet-locking mechanism, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Public administration · OSHA inspection 1741878

Mar 21, 2024 · ALTA VISTA REHABILITATION AND HEALTHCARE Hospitalized

An employee was exiting a room when she tripped on a mobility walker and fell to the floor, making contact with a rolling bedside table on the way down and fracturing her pelvis.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Pelvis · Health care and social assistance

Nov 3, 2023 · Trico Products Corporation Hospitalized

The injured employee was walking backward toward the main aisle while pulling a dolly. They were struck by empty cable rolls that were being moved on a forklift. The employee sustained a fractured heel.

Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area · Heel(s) · Manufacturing

Oct 12, 2023 · Linetec Hospitalized

Employees were tasked with installing permanent jumpers. The injured employee was inside the insulated bucket with the jumper inside the bucket. The jumper contacted an energized phase while he was moving, causing the employee to sustain burns to his left leg and foot.

Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts · Foot(feet) and leg(s) · Utilities

Sep 20, 2023 · Quality Carriers, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was disconnecting a chemical-unloading hose from a tank trailer after unloading caustic soda consisting of 50 percent sodium hydroxide. The product spilled from the hose and contacted the employee's hands, face, and eyes, resulting in caustic burns that required hospitalization.

Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue · Multiple body parts (other) · Transportation and warehousing

Aug 8, 2023 · Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville Hospitalized

An employe was lifting a patient when she developed pelvic pain. She was hospitalized.

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Pelvic region · Health care and social assistance

May 5, 2023 · Trico Products Corporation Amputation

An employee was working when a steel coil fell from a nearby forklift, crushing their left foot. The employee's foot was medically amputated.

Pedestrian vehicular incident (other) · Foot (feet) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1669523

Apr 27, 2023 · Saint Gobain Abrasives Inc. Amputation

An employee was opening an interlocked door to troubleshoot a servomotor. Once the motor was placed properly, the stored pneumatic energy moved the carriage and caused the employee to sustain an amputation to their thumb.

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Wholesale trade

Apr 27, 2023 · Saint-Gobain Abrasive, Inc. Amputation

An employee was troubleshooting an error on a servo motor under a stacker carriage when they sustained a partial amputation to the tip of their thumb and thumbnail.

Contact with objects and equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing

Apr 15, 2023 · Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Amputation

An employee was holding the bottom of a metal stringer (about 25 feet long and 6 inches wide, made of thin-gauge stainless steel) while others were tack welding it to a tank wall. The tack welds gave way. The stringer dropped about 4 inches and pinched the employee's right index fingertip against the support tooling. The fingertip was amputated without bone loss.

Struck by falling object or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1670653

Apr 11, 2023 · Creative Liquid Coatings Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was removing resin from a plastic mold extruder machine when hot resin burned his face.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Face · Manufacturing