Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Avulsions, enucleations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Fluor and JGC Joint Venture, 8303 Sjolander Rd., BAYTOWN, TEXAS 77521
on — Avulsions, enucleations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
Employees were installing grating that consisted of 4 sheets (approximately 4 feet by 5 feet), cumulatively weighing approximately 800 pounds. When the employees disconnected the load from the crane, they realized the corner of the grating rested on the edge of an existing guard rail toe plate. The injured employee attempted to lift the grating upwards while his coworker used a spud wrench to shift the grating off the toe plate. The grating shifted and caught the injured employee's left index finger between the grating and structural steel. He suffered an avulsion to his left index finger flesh beneath his fingertip, which was crushed and cut. He required surgery and was hospitalized overnight.
Workers were offloading jersey barriers from a trailer when they lost control of one of the jersey barriers, causing it to strike an employee in the back. The employee rolled off the trailer and laid down on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with L2 and L3 vertebrae fractures.
Rigging employees were setting a pipe that was 20 feet long, 24 inches in diameter, and weighed 5 tons. As the load was being transferred from the crane to the rack, the riggers were adjusting the chain fall hoists. Slack was taken up in one of the hoists, which caused the pipe to lift. When the pipe lifted the injured employee was straddling the beam, and the shoe plate of the pipe contacted the injured employee's left lower leg, causing a compound fracture. The employee was admitted to the hospital for surgery.
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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