A Texas Amazon Employee Suffers an Amputation Injury
Materials storage is among the warehouse hazards that can threaten the safety of big box store employees. The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tracks the serious work injuries and workplace fatalities that occur in U.S. workplaces. Among the serious work injuries reported by OSHA that occurred in Texas in December 2021 was one that involved materials storage hazards and happened at an Amazon location. Like Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s, Amazon is not likely a workers’ comp participant in Texas. However, the same rules apply to all employers in that workers must have a safe place in which to work.
Dangers of materials storage include stacking of materials, improper storage, and overloading of storage equipment that results in materials falling onto workers. Serious injuries can occur, such as if a forklift strikes a storage rack and causes a chain reaction in which a storage system fails and threatens the safety of employees.
An Amazon Worker Suffers an Amputation Injury in Forney, Texas
On December 19, 2021, a serious work injury occurred at Amazon FTW5, which is at 1475 Akron Way in Forney, TX 75126. The NAICS Code for this business is 452311, which is the Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters industry. OSHA provides an accident summary about this Texas industrial accident, as follows:
- While an employee was moving two cages of product, her finger got caught between the two cages, which resulted in an amputation injury.
In this ongoing series, learn more about common warehouse hazards that can threaten the safety of employees when there is noncompliance with safety standards.
Providing help to seriously injured workers and the relatives of employees who have suffered fatal Texas work injuries when the employer involved is not a workers’ comp participant in the state is the purpose of this website. It is never intended here to make insinuations of wrongdoing having occurred on the part of persons or entities.
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