Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Winholt, 1116 111th str, ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee suffered a finger amputation while working on a brake press.
On December 19, 2023, an employee was setting up a copper wire drawing machine when his left ring finger was pinched between a copper wire and a machine part. The employee's finger was partially amputated.
An employee was checking the gusset seal on a machine. He moved to the next cross sealer and the machine activated, causing an amputation to a left-hand finger. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was evaluating a coiling machine to verify that the blade was present inside it. The machine's weld function was activated, and the machine crushed the employee's fingers, resulting in the amputation of the left middle and ring fingers.
An employee was operating a company-owned vehicle on a roadway inside a worksite. As the employee was driving downhill, the vehicle brakes failed and the vehicle struck an embankment at the bottom of the hill. The employee sustained a vertebra fracture in his back and was hospitalized.
An employee was at a roaster machine moving a manual cart with a part on it. The employee's finger was pinched between the cart and a frame of the machine, resulting in an amputation to the left ring finger with no bone involvement.
On 08/10/18, at approximately 2:00 AM, a maintenance employee was performing repairs to an oxygen line that was part of a plant's oxygen air system. The employee repaired the hose, tightened the clamp on the hose, and instructed another employee to turn the oxygen back on. When the oxygen was turned back on, the hose exploded in the maintenance employee's hands. The employee was hospitalized with burns to both hands.
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.