Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at TD Industries, 1001 Avenida De Las Americas, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77010
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee as attempting to stop the fan belt on a fan motor pulley when the pulley lacerated his right middle finger.
Employees went to a site for a water leak and had to remove the floor access hatch. While doing so, the door came off its hinge. They were attempting to reposition the hatch when the injured employee placed his fingers under the hatch to move it. The hatch then shifted on the broken hinge and dropped on his finger, resulting in the partial amputation of his left middle fingertip (no bone loss).
An employee was operating a pipe grooving machine to groove a steel pipe when his glove became caught and his hand was pulled in between the pipe and the back plate of the machine. His left middle, ring, and index fingers were partially amputated.
An employee was climbing a fixed ladder to the roof and fell. The employee sustained a fractured left ankle and leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.
An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.
An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.
An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.
An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 711310)
An employee was working on a platform, raised 6 to 8 feet in the air, to get something off a rack. The employee fell from the platform to the ground and sustained a head injury and injury to multiple body parts.
An employee was rolling two stacked trunks (on wheels) toward a forklift during load-in for a concert. The trunks toppled over and struck the employee, resulting in hospitalization with fractures to their nose and femur.
An employee was moving a ticketing scanner cart back to the box office when they tripped and fell forward, striking the left side of their head on the base of a refrigerator. The employee had pain in their left knee, shin, arm, and shoulder. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.
An employee was working on mechanical repairs to a tractor that was on a 22-ton hydraulic lift/jack. The employee was loosening bolts on the rear differential when the jack failed/slipped, and the tractor came down, pushing the employee's drill to the ground. The employee's left hand was caught under the drill with the weight of the tractor pushing down on it. Two of his fingers were lacerated and he was hospitalized.
An employee was using an electric pallet jack to unload a pallet from a delivery truck. While he was turning the pallet jack to move it backward, it sped up, spun, and collided with a loaded, stationary pallet on the ground. His right foot was pinned between the loaded stationary pallet and the pallet jack. The foot was lacerated and he was hospitalized.
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.