Epic Piping, LLC

An employee was assisting a co-worker empty 55-gallon trash barrels into a self-dumping hopper on a forklift. As the injured employee reached to help empty the drum, the co-worker used the forklift to move the barrel. The drum shifted suddenly and pinched the injured employee's left thumb between the barrel and the hopper, resulting in a left thumb fracture at the first joint.

An employee was rolling a piece of carbon steel pipe from a conveyor onto a storage rack. The pipe was 14 inches in diameter, approximately 65 inches long and weighed about 300 pounds. When the pipe shifted and began to fall between the supports of the storage rack, the employee attempted to regain control of the falling pipe. The employee s fingers were caught between the pipe and the storage rack resulting in lacerations to the middle and ring fingers of the employee s left hand.

An employee was fabricating a pipe using normal hand tools and a crane when a flange fell on his right foot, fracturing metatarsals 1-4. He was hospitalized for surgery.

An employee was unloading a trailer when a box fell and struck the employee in the face. The employee suffered a concussion and was hospitalized.

An employee had been cutting lumber for a shed wall. A load of 16-foot trim pieces fell onto the employee causing vertebrae and ankle fractures.

An employee was unloading 30-foot 2-inch barrels from a pan holding about 20 barrels. The barrels tipped over, striking and breaking both of the employee's lower legs.

An employee was in a sandblasting area, preparing the surface of a plate heat exchanger frame for painting. The frame fell on the employee, who suffered fractures to vertebrae, the neck, pelvis, and rib cage; and punctured lungs.

An employee was installing doors when one of the doors fell on him, fracturing his lower leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee fell onto a hot billet and suffered a burn to the left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was cutting wooden boards using a table saw when the glove on his left hand was caught by the blade, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

An employee was placing a board on top of a bundle of steel tubing. A crane was moving a bundle of steel that struck the employee and caught them against another bundle of steel tubing. The employee sustained a crushing injury and hematoma to the right upper leg.

A crane was hoisting a pipe. An employee was adjusting twisted lifting chains on the end of the pipe when the pipe was raised, causing the employee's hands to be caught between the chains and the pipe. The employee suffered injuries to the left index finger, left ring finger, right ring finger, and right index finger; the right index fingertip was amputated without bone loss.

During a routine inspection, an employee placed their hand on a pipe to check a weld. The pipe clamp activated, closed on the pipe, and trapped the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a partial amputation and fracture to the fingertip as well as a laceration to the ring finger.

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 inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

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.