Severe Workplace Injuries in Kingwood, Texas
Employers in Kingwood reported 22 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through July 2025: 19 workers hospitalized and 3 amputations (14% of reports). Construction accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 2 of them.
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How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Kingwood since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 37 inspections at Kingwood workplaces, and 20 of them (54%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 43 serious, 0 willful and 1 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $211,007.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| H-E-B, LP (referral, details) | 1 | $13,240 |
| Petco Animal Supplies, Inc (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $10,403 |
| Hough Velocity Air LLC (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $2,074 |
| Spectrum Paint And Commercial Services, Inc. (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $2,766 |
| Kroger Company #359 (complaint, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $66,170 |
| Dealermade, L.P. (complaint, details) | 8 (8 serious+) | $11,251 |
| Jose Guadalupe Sifuentes (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $5,407 |
| Jose Guadalupe Sifuentes (planned, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $8,676 |
| Limber Lopez (planned, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $12,724 |
| North Houston Pole Line, L.P. (referral, details) | 1 | $13,494 |
| Manuel Huerta (planned, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $7,760 |
| Alejandro Rivera Rocha (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $3,880 |
Penalties as currently recorded by OSHA; they can drop after settlement or contest. Inspection data covers federal OSHA inspections and state-run safety program inspections reported to OSHA.
Most recent reports
The 22 newest severe injury reports from Kingwood employers, as OSHA published them.
Jul 8, 2025 · Invited Clubs USA, Inc Amputation
An employee was cutting bacon when the knife he was using slipped and the tip of his left thumb was lacerated. The thumb tip was medically amputated.
Injured by object held or wielded by person · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Hotels and restaurants
Jun 6, 2025 · Kindercare Education Hospitalized
An employee was startled by a spider while sitting at her desk. She fell backward from her chair, landed on her left hip, and broke it. She was hospitalized.
Fall while sitting · Hip joint(s) · Health care and social assistance
Jun 2, 2025 · P.L. Marketing Hospitalized
An employee was walking in the parking lot when they were struck by a vehicle. The employee was hospitalized with a brain bleed and a skull fracture.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Brain · Retail
Apr 26, 2025 · Club Corp Inc Hospitalized
An employee was giving a swimming lesson when a cottonmouth snake was spotted in the the pool. The employee grabbed the snake behind it's head and exited the pool. He walked over to the fence and was throwing the snake over the fence when the snake bit his left index finger.
Venomous animal bite except "bugs" · Body systems · Arts, entertainment and recreation
Dec 16, 2024 · H-E-B, LP Amputation
An employee was operating a meat saw and sustained a partial amputation of the right middle finger including the fingernail.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1794427
Jun 6, 2024 · HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood Hospitalized
An employee was repairing a water system that was leaking. Upon stepping off the platform where the tank sits (approximately 6 inches high), she hit a wet spot on the floor, slipped, and fell. The employee landed on her left knee and sustained a complete tear of her right hamstring.
Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels · Thigh(s) · Health care and social assistance
Mar 23, 2024 · Siteone Landscape Supply LLC Hospitalized
An employee was walking in a paved parking lot when she tripped and fell to the ground, breaking her hip.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Hip joint(s) · Wholesale trade
Jun 27, 2023 · Universal Cable Holdings, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was fixing a cable line when they began feeling ill and experiencing abdominal & leg cramps due to possible heat stress. The employee was hospitalized that evening for dehydration.
Exposure to environmental heat · Body systems · Information
Jul 22, 2022 · BrightView Landscape Hospitalized
On July 22, 2022, an employee became dizzy while using a weed trimmer. He was hospitalized, suffering from heat exhaustion.
Exposure to environmental heat · Body systems · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Feb 15, 2021 · Kingwood Emergency Hospital Hospitalized
An employee was taking sandbags to an emergency room ambulance bay. He slipped on ice and fell, breaking his left arm.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Arm(s) · Health care and social assistance
Aug 17, 2020 · North Houston Pole Line Hospitalized
An employee climbed a wooden pole to remove a downed conductor. The employee's right arm contacted the bottom of the energized switch and received third degree burns.
Direct exposure to electricity · Arm(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1488577
Mar 2, 2020 · Wayne Electric, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was moving a UPS cabinet off a pallet using a pallet jack. The pallet buckled and tipped toward the employee, bending his right hand back. He suffered two broken bones in the hand and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Hand(s) · Construction
Jun 20, 2019 · Waste Management Hospitalized
A garbage collection crew was on its way to a landfill when one of the employees became ill with cramps and started sweating. The employee was hospitalized due to heat stress and dehydration.
Exposure to environmental heat · Body systems · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Apr 30, 2019 · HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood Hospitalized
An employee tripped and fell while walking on a tile floor. The employee sustained a left hip fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.
Fall on same level due to tripping over self · Hip(s) · Health care and social assistance
Mar 29, 2018 · TDIndustries Hospitalized
An employee was using a fixed ladder to take copper piping to the roof when he missed a rung and fell approximately 6 feet. He was hospitalized with fractures to his neck, back, and pelvis.
Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Construction
Aug 10, 2017 · Kroger # 310 Hospitalized
An employee was standing inside a tractor trailer waiting for the dock plate to connect to the trailer when the dock plate came down on his right foot, lacerating it. He was hospitalized.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Foot (feet) · Retail
Jan 5, 2017 · Commercial State Bank Hospitalized
An employee slid and fell on wet concrete while walking into the building from the company parking lot, breaking the left ankle and requiring hospitalization.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Ankle(s) · Finance and insurance
Mar 24, 2016 · Tejas Underground Utilities Hospitalized
A front-end loader bucket on an articulated wheel loader was transferring tools to another part of the work site. The operator of the wheel loader inadvertently released the end loader, which fell on top of and broke an employee's left foot. He was hospitalized for surgery.
Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached · Foot (feet) · Construction
Mar 1, 2016 · Kroger #359 Amputation
An employee was slicing meat in the deli for a customer when the employee's hand slipped off the guard and struck the rotating blade, amputating the right thumb tip.
Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Retail
Oct 24, 2015 · AOC Home Health Hospitalized
While working at a private residence, a nurse fell backwards off a porch onto the concrete below. The employee broke her left tibia and dislocated her knee.
Other fall to lower level · Knee(s) and leg(s) · Health care and social assistance
Feb 24, 2015 · Steinmart Hospitalized
On 2/24/2015, at approximately 2:00 PM, an employee was injured while restocking in the linen department at a department store. The employee was moving comforters and quilts from the floor to the shelves. The employee's foot got caught on one of the quilts that was on the floor, which caused her to fall onto her right hip. She could not get back up to her feet from that point. The injured employee was taken to Kingwood Hospital for treatment and is awaiting possible hip surgery.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Hip(s) · Retail
Jan 29, 2015 · BR BRICK & STONE, L.P. Hospitalized
A scaffold board was removed to load mortar onto the scaffold. As the scaffold board was placed back into position, an adjacent scaffold board fell from the third tier, striking an employee in the head. The injured employee was on the ground loading custom bricks into a bucket. He was taken to the hospital and admitted.
Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Brain · Construction
After a workplace injury in Texas
Most work injuries are handled through workers' compensation, which pays medical bills and part of lost wages whether or not anyone was at fault, and usually rules out suing the employer. A separate claim may be possible against someone else, such as an equipment maker or another company on the site. Reporting deadlines are short, so tell your employer about an injury right away.
Personal injury lawyers in Kingwood
Lawbamba lists 3 personal injury lawyers with an office in Kingwood, Texas, the practice area that deals with the workplace injury and OSHA inspection records on this page. These 3 come first in that listing (how the order is set).
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Source: OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, 2015 through November 2025 (loaded November 9, 2026). Employers must report any work-related amputation, loss of an eye or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours. Employer names, addresses and incident descriptions are as OSHA publishes them. A report records an injury, not a finding that the employer broke a rule; OSHA opens an inspection for some reports. The data covers workplaces under federal OSHA. States that run their own OSHA program (such as California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia) are mostly missing, and work-related deaths are reported separately.
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