Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Camarata Masonry Systems, Ltd., 4 Chelsea Blvd., HOUSTON, TEXAS 77006
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee and coworkers were setting up the small mortar mixer on a concrete masonry unit to allow the mortar to be poured into a wheelbarrow. As he was lifting the mixer, it moved forward, causing him to lose his grip. It slipped out of his hand and pinched his fingers between the top of the concrete masonry unit and the bottom of the back of the mixer, amputating his right index fingertip.
AmputationFingertip(s)Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
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