Woman Injured in San Antonio Industrial Accident at Andy Garcia Foods on Jackson Keller Road

San Antonio, Texas (January 13, 2022) – A woman was injured early Wednesday morning in an industrial accident at a food processing plant in San Antonio’s North Side, according to the authorities.

The accident happened around 4:30 a.m., January 11, t the Andy Garcia Foods, located in the 1800 block of Jackson Keller Road.

Authorities said a woman was cleaning a piece of machinery, known as a chopper/mixer when she became lodged in it from the waist down.

The woman had to be freed from the machine and was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The plant makes chorizo and barbacoa, among other items, according to its website.

An investigation is underway.

“Texas has been the scene of some of the world’s most shocking industrial accidents in the past 25 years,” Joel A. Gordon, an experienced industrial accident lawyer, said. In the great majority of the cases, gross negligence on the part of the employer bears full responsibility,” he added. Numerous OSHA violations, fines and deficiencies stand as proven evidence that employers repeatedly disregard the importance of worker safety by ignoring needs for proper equipment maintenance, employee protections around dangerous work conditions, and vigilance about employee health concerns or symptoms while working within unsafe circumstances. 

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