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Total incidents
273,095
Of which fatal
1,202
Years on record
2000–2026
Classifications
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March 3, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Arcosa Aggregates Texas, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was greasing an excavator, after finishing greasing employee started to retract the grease line. In the process of retracting the line employee lost control of the line causing the grease gun handle to whiplash striking the employee's left wrist area.

January 6, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator POWERED HAULAGE
Arcosa Aggregates Texas, LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

The employee overreached a guard to spray a head-pulley with brake cleaner to prevent the conveyor belt from slipping. As employee was spraying the head-pulley the pulley became in contact with the spray can, causing the can to get pulled in. In the process employee fractured right thumb.

June 5, 2023 TX · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger POWERED HAULAGE
Arcosa Aggregates Texas, LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee was training a new employee when the new employee drove into spoil pile of material causing the trainer to have shoulder/neck pain.

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