Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Concrete Systems Inc. , 14 Commercial Street, HUDSON, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03051
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was working to undo forms around a casting area using a gantry crane. The employee was holding on to the cables at the main block as the crane was raised and caught his fingers between the cables and the pulley causing an amputation of his pinky fingertip and a partial amputation of the right ring finger.
An employee was riding a power trowel to move it out of the way when the power trowel got caught in safety netting. The employee and the power trowel fell 18 feet off the second deck and the employee sustained a ligament injury to the right foot, a laceration/bruise on their liver, and a foot injury. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was setting forms for a concrete pour. A steel plate that shortens the form was askew in the track and did not seat properly. The employee began to wiggle the plate to get it in place when it released and pinched his left ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.
An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 327390)
An employee was stacking concrete blocks for a concrete bunker. As a block was swinging into place, the employee's left leg was pinched between two blocks, resulting in injuries to his left heel and lower leg.
An employee was patching precast concrete. He fell from a concrete wall support to the ground due to wind. He was hospitalized with fractures to his left ankle and right knee.
An employee was cutting wood on a table saw when the wood got jammed. While clearing the jam, the wood moved forward and his left index and middle fingertips were amputated.
An employee was lowering the bucket of a track loader that contained a grade stake and the grade stake punctured his foot, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.
An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.
An employee was delivering a 65-foot boom lift to a rental customer's construction site. The employee set up the ramp truck in the parking lot adjacent to the construction site. He elevated the boom 4-5 feet to clear a temporary fence. While driving the boom lift off the ramp, the wheels slid to the driver's side of the ramp truck, ultimately sliding off the ramp. The boom lift fell off the side of the truck and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder, separated/fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a fractured left femur. The employee required surgery.