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To continue with examples of the hazards of working with heavy equipment, the following are more examples of Texas work injuries as provided by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA):

• An employee of William Brothers Construction in Magnolia, Texas, was allegedly seriously injured on November 10, 2019. The employee was dumping sand from his truck. The truck tumbled over and the employee struck his head on the inside of the truck door. He was hospitalized for a laceration on the top of his head that required stitches.
• On November 5, 2019, an employee of RPMX Construction, LLC of Denton, Texas, was allegedly seriously injured on the job and subsequently was hospitalized. The employee was moving a drum roller in the yard when a mechanical vehicle struck the employee and broke his left leg.
• An employee of Wright Construction Company, Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, was allegedly seriously injured on November 1, 2019. An employee was assembling a 6″ bend for a manhole vent and his finger got caught between the bolts and the hood. His middle finger was fractured and he was hospitalized.

Tragically, fatal work injuries often occur as a result of industrial accidents involving heavy equipment. In the next segment, learn about two fatal accidents that occurred in Texas, as reported by OSHA.

See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and this continuing series to learn about other Texas work injuries involving heavy equipment, including fatal industrial accidents. Also, find out about recourse employees can seek if they are injured at work and their employer is a Non-Subscriber.

–Guest Contributor

Continued from Part 3 of this series, the following is a more recent report about a fatal industrial accident involving a nail gun. This report was also prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA):

• An employee for Rubio Electric, Inc. of Beverly Hills, California, suffered a fatal workplace injury on October 31, 2018. The employee, an electrician, had been on a ladder strapping electrical conduit overhead when the industrial accident occurred. The employee had a Hilti DX 351 nail gun, which became jammed after it was actuated by the employee’s powder. The employee pointed the nail gun at himself as he removed the housing and fastener guide. The trigger of the nail gun was inadvertently pulled, causing the piston to strike the man under his left cheek. The piston entered the man’s skull. He was transported to a hospital, where he died from his injuries three days later.

In another report, OSHA released a detailed account of a nail gun injury that occurred on July 7, 2006. An employee of Nolex Construction Corp. in Tujunga, California, was a framing foreman at a construction worksite. The foreman, referred to below as Employee #1, allegedly suffered the injury following an industrial accident. Details follow:

• Employee #1 was nailing plywood in the basement level of a three-level house under construction. He was using a Hitachi NR83 pneumatic nail gun. The nail gun was in his right hand. He was preparing to discharge a nail when he turned to answer another employee who called his name. Employee #1 then reloaded the nail gun when his name was called by a third employee who asked another question. At this time, Employee #1 turned around to get up. As he stood, the nail gun was in his right hand and hit his knee, causing the nail gun to discharge. A 2.375-in. ring-shank nail shot into Employee #1’s knee and became embedded in the femur bone. The bone was not shattered or fractured, however. To remove the nail, Employee #1 was hospitalized for five days, underwent surgery, and got 32 stitches.

See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and this continuing series for much more information about nail guns, fatal industrial accidents caused by nail guns, related Texas work injuries, and more.

The following are more incidents of serious nail gun injuries in a report prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), all of which are industrial accidents that occurred in Texas:

• An employee for Anemostat Door Products, Inc. out of San Antonio, Texas, was allegedly hospitalized with a serious workplace injury involving a powered nail gun on November 14, 2018. The worker was building pallets and was using a pneumatic nail gun to nail boards together when the industrial accident occurred. The nail gun fired a nail into the worker’s left leg just above the knee.

• On October 4, 2018, an employee for Greenpoint Technologies out of Denton, Texas, allegedly suffered a serious injury and was hospitalized. The worker was securing a board using a nail gun when a nail shot into the employee’s left hand.

• An employee of Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America located in Houston, Texas, was allegedly injured in a serious industrial accident on July 13, 2018. According to OSHA’s final narrative on the Texas workplace injury, an employee was using a pneumatic nail gun in an effort to secure dunnage in a trailer. The gun’s trigger got caught in his work boots as he was standing up from a kneeling position. The trigger of the nail gun was depressed by the tongue of the boots, which caused it to fire a nail into the man’s lower right leg.

• On April 3, 2018, an employee for Cardone Industries Inc. in Harlingen, Texas, was allegedly seriously injured. As the worker was turning a pallet, a nail gun started to fall and he attempted to catch it. While the employee was reaching for the nail gun, the trigger was activated and the nail gun discharged. A nail shot into the worker’s right thigh and he was hospitalized for treatment of the Texas work injury he suffered.

See Part 1 and this continuing series to learn about a serious nail gun injury that occurred in April 2020 as well as other serious workplace injuries involving nail guns, a tragic fatal nail gun injury described by OSHA in an accident report, and some of the safety guidelines employers are required to follow regarding nail gun safety.

–Guest Contributor