Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Aker Solutions Inc., 7611 Lake Road South, MOBILE, ALABAMA 36605
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was building a part when his finger got caught and crushed between an angle iron and sheet steel. The end of the finger had to be medically amputated.
An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.
An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.
An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.
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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.
An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.
An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.