Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CSA Equipment Company, LLC, 1900- 13th Street Blvd, MOBILE, ALABAMA 36602
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was removing rigging from cargo that was just unloaded from the ship and pinched his left index finger between the shackle and the pad eye when the rack shifted. The employee was hospitalized. The finger was not amputated.
An employee was removing bailing wire from the floor. As they bent down to pick up the wire, a strand of bailing wire that was sticking up from the floor went under his safety glasses and struck his eye.
An employee was operating a forklift on a rail track platform when their left arm was caught between the forklift and the side of a rail car. They sustained a left arm fracture.
An employee was stepping off a gangway and tripped on a piece of rope that is attached to the safety net. This caused him to fall to the dock and then he rolled underneath the passenger side of a pickup truck that was parked about 3 to 4 feet from the gangway. When the pickup truck pulled away, it ran over the employee's left leg and fractured it.
An employee was doing longshoring work inside a vessel. He stepped into a ladderway that was covered by cardboard, fell 17 feet, and suffered spinal injuries requiring hospitalization.
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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