Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Heldenfels Enterprises, Inc. , 12123 Dyer, EL PASO, TEXAS 79934
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was moving stressing jacks from one steel cable to another to pre-stress the steel cables before pouring the concrete beam around them when his right index and middle fingers entered the path of the stressing jack and were partially amputated.
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An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
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