Vest Plant — Accidents

Total: 26 accidents | Fatalities: 0

Date Classification Injury Days Lost Narrative
11/10/2025 MACHINERY NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was working on the Silo spout 7B, was in man lift with another employee untangling cable. Started to get cable untangled and used spud wrench to turn motor until cables untangled. When they...
07/03/2025 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 5d lost, 2d restricted Employee was closing lid on a box truck when driver re-entered the cab and proceeded to drive away with employee still on top. Employee was caught by fall protection. Employee was Rescued via Emergenc...
08/27/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 99d lost Employee was performing the pre-operational inspection of the Komatsu 155AX dozer. Employee's foot got caught in the tracks of the dozer causing EE to fall off the tracks and fracturing their ankle.
06/01/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Employee was walking to get the dry plant sample, tripped and fell and hit elbow and was in moderate pain, didn't need medical assistance at that point. On 6/1, after sleeping, employee complained of...
04/19/2024 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee 1 (E1) attempted to separate two employees that were in a confrontation, E1 fell down the steps of the E-House injuring EE's ankle. E1 declined medical treatment. On April 21, E1 was unable t...
09/08/2023 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE slipped on a water bottle and dislocated thumb when trying to catch themselves.
01/06/2022 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was replacing the guarding on the top of BE307 and when they picked up a 5 gallon bucket and turned to walk back to the man lift. Employee stepped on a race from one of the bearings that had...
11/10/2021 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 5d restricted Employee was loading trucks in the silos and caught the toe of EE's shoe and sprained EE's knee.
06/15/2021 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was walking and turned back to talk to another employee and tripped over forks of forklift using hand to catch fall. Wrist was not broken just had splint put on the sprained wrist.
11/29/2020 SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 36d restricted Employee had worked night shift. Had already clocked out and was about to head home when employee stopped into building by parking area to grab a burrito. Employee tripped on flat ground and fell into...
10/16/2020 STRIKING OR BUMPING NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was hooking cable on the crane and turned to look at the crane operator. When the employee turned back the headache ball hit the employee and chipped the front tooth.
07/03/2020 MACHINERY DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 4d restricted Employee cutting bearing with grinder, cutting wheel. Wheel broke and piece flew off, cutting employee on right forearm in two places. Requiring stitches.
03/19/2020 STRIKING OR BUMPING DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT 70d lost, 12d restricted 2-26-20 employee struck elbow on hand rail. 3-4-20 elbow swelled, prognosis Bursitis. No restrictions. 3-19-20 elbow infected. To Doctor. 3 prescriptions and work restriction until 4-1-20.
01/30/2020 POWERED HAULAGE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 5d lost While determining which troughing rollers to be replaced, employee caught hand and arm in moving conveyor belt, causing abrasion to left hand and broken left arm. Employee transported to Emergency Roo...
01/07/2020 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was attempting to remove a large nut on SCR 311 in order to adjust the hanger arm with a 36"" pipe wrench. Nut would not break loose so second employee came in to help. Both employees were pu...
11/21/2019 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee clocked in and returned to personal car to retrieve back pack. Using a pocket knife, employee was attempting to cut a zip tie off back pack. Knife slipped cutting left index finger. Initial f...
05/19/2019 MACHINERY DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 45d lost Failure to LOTO while unbinding an auger at the lime silo. Employee applied a pipe-wrench and failed to remove it when the auger was being bump tested. Employee was struck on the left side of face c...
04/30/2019 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None EE was cutting a zip tie with pocket knife and cut EE's left thumb requiring 3 stitches
04/12/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 3d lost Employee received a small puncture and laceration to the 4th and 5th fingers of the left hand while touching a piece of metal with bare hands.
04/06/2019 HANDLING OF MATERIALS NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Employee was struck in the eyelid by a metal shard which was created by striking metal on metal. Employee was prescribed a medication for the eye to prevent injury. Returned to work with no restrict...
11/19/2018 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 92d restricted After climbing stairs to plate presses, employee was standing on landing, the employee used EE's hands to gesture inadvertently striking the hand rail with EE's little finger of EE's left hand. Emplo...
09/11/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 80d restricted While training a conveyor belt, using a hammer to adjust return roller, employee missed roller frame and the hammer was caught between the belt and roller, pulling hand against the belt, causing a fri...
07/26/2018 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 80d restricted EE was changing bearing at tail of BE304. When tensioner bar was removed, stored energy released and hand was smashed between 2 pieces of plate resulting in lacerations requiring stitches and 2 fractu...
02/17/2018 STRIKING OR BUMPING DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY 6d restricted Employee was crouched down, below a piece of steel angle, working and stood straight up when finished. Hit their collarbone on steel angle breaking the collarbone.
02/04/2018 EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY 4d lost Wet Plant Attendant reconnected a 2"" rubber airline to a 2"" metal nipple. The airline was recharged and end of airline blew off nipple striking employee in mouth. Employee was taken to ER in Kermit,...
01/30/2018 HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT None Congested work area working in a non permit confined space. Limited space for movement. Employees left pinky finger sustained a laceration requiring stitches.