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	Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program

Through the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program, NIOSH conducts investigations of fatal occupational injuries. The primary intent of this program is to provide interested users with access to the full text of hundreds of fatality investigation reports.

State-based Case Reports: Texas The following reports are the products of our Cooperative State partners and are presented here in their original unedited form from the states. The findings and conclusions in each report are those of the individual Cooperative State partner and do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Report No.	Incident State	Title

2001TX133	TX	Two gas well workers were struck and killed when a drainage pipe broke free during a gas well pressure test
1999TX468	TX	A laborer for a boring and tunneling company in Texas, died when he was struck by a hydraulic hose
1999TX467	TX	An operations manager for a well servicing company in Texas, died when a length of pipe mounted on top of a skid-mounted mud pump broke loose and struck him in the head
1999TX390	TX	A plumber repairing a water line in a trench in Texas died when he was struck by the bucket of a backhoe
1999TX381	TX	A module truck driver for a cotton gin in Texas died from internal injuries when crushed between the tailgate of a trailer and the metal beam supporting a cotton seed dispenser box
1999TX231	TX	A forklift shop technician for a dealer who services, sells, and rents material handling equipment, in Texas, died when the carriage of a forklift fell and one of the fork's tines crushed his chest
1999TX202	TX	The foreman for an electrical construction and maintenance company in Texas was electrocuted after grabbing energized bayonet fuse in a live front transformer
1999TX059	TX	A farmer was crushed when a round bale of hay, weighing 1,500 - 1,800 lbs., toppled off of an agricultural tractor equipped as a front-end loader with a fork attachment
1999TX058	TX	A switchman for a railcar manufacturer died when he was caught between a pole and the railcar he was riding on
1999TX020	TX	A farm worker on a family run farm in Texas died when he was crushed by the basket of a cotton stripper as he stood in the engine compartment of the cotton stripper
1998TX468	TX	A laborer for a boring and tunneling company in Texas, died when he was struck by a hydraulic hose
1998TX350	TX	A fitter/welder for an elbow fabricator in Texas died when he was struck by a 9,300 lb. elbow when a support stand was being removed
1998TX310	TX	A laborer for a framing subcontractor in Texas died when he fell from a wooden trash box being lifted by a forklift
1998TX254	TX	A fitter working for a steel building manufacturer in Texas, died when a 7,800 pound rafter fell on him
1998TX236	TX	TX laborer for a general contractor in Texas died when the personnel lift he was standing in fell over and he struck his head on a concrete floor
1998TX235	TX	A plant operator at a coal fired power generation plant in Texas, died when he fell between the bypass dampers located in the flu gas desulfurization unit
1998TX197	TX	A canal rider working for an irrigation district in Texas, died when he fell into a standpipe four feet in diameter and 16 feet high
1998TX146	TX	A hotel maintenance engineer died when struck by the counter weights of an elevator in Texas
1998TX145	TX	A pipe layer working in a trench for a general contractor in Texas, died when a trench wall gave way and he was fully engulfed in sand/dirt
1998TX133	TX	A maintenance clean-up worker, at a trucking company freight dock terminal in Texas, died when he fell through a skylight on a roof
1998TX128	TX	A roofer's helper, working for a roofing contractor in Texas, died when he fell through a three-foot square opening in a roof and struck a concrete floor
1998TX112	TX	A rear load helper, for a refuse collection company in Texas, died when he was crushed by the rear wheels of a refuse collection vehicle
1998TX074	TX	A cross tie processor working at an East Texas sawmill died when struck by a guard thrown from a wood chipper machine as he stood at his work station
1998TX073	TX	A driller working at a West Texas oil field died when he fell from a derrick board he was standing on as it was being lifted into place by a forklift
1998TX071	TX	A computer support technician at a communications company in Texas died after being crushed in a stationary trash compactor
1998TX004	TX	Front-end loader operator dies when crushed between the front bucket of the loader and a low-boy trailer at a cattle feed lot in Texas