Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GE Oil and Gas, 1150 Schwab Road, NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS 78130
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee suffered an avulsion of his left thumb that was later amputated in the hospital.
An employee was making welding repairs to one of the pad eyes on a 30 inch Blow Out Preventer (BOP). The task required the employee to place the BOP on a table positioner. While welding the 14,000 lbs. piece, it fell from the table crushing the employee's left foot.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
Employees were replacing a 24" pig trap door. A strap was shackled on the pig trap door and connected to a forklift. Welders began to cut the door off. An employee was holding onto the door when the cut was finished. The door shifted and caught his fingers, resulting in a hand injury and amputation.
An employee was fitting an arbor fixture into a rotor housing to be reworked. The rotor is moved by a hoist. The arbor was being lowered into the rotor housing when the arbor slipped down onto his hand and amputated a portion of his left thumb.
A crew was tripping out of the hole with an electrical submersible pump (ESP) in the process of swapping tubing tong heads to break down the ESP. An employee's left arm was caught and pinched by the tubing tongs. The employee sustained three lacerations and a fracture to the arm.
On May 21, 2025, at approximately 3:40 PM, a machinist was preparing a CNC lathe machine for it's next run. He was closing the machine door to complete the tooling setup when the door crushed his right middle finger. The employee required a surgical amputation to his fingertip.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.