Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc., 1300 Highway 107, LA VILLA, TEXAS 78562
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was using a pneumatic chisel to dig though asphalt when the chisel became stuck. He was trying to unstick it when the chisel came loose and caught his right pinky finger between it and the wall, amputating the fingertip.
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More severe injuries at Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc.
An employee was helping retrieve a wind-damaged sign. The sign was in the bed of a pickup truck, with the employee holding it down, when a gust of wind picked it up. The sign fall back onto his finger and dislocated it.
An employee had been placing pre-warning burning flags in a sugar cane field. When completed, he walked into a grassy area and was bitten on the left leg by a rattlesnake. The employee was hospitalized.
Employees were about to take samples of hot sugar cane juice as the machine was processing the sugar cane. An air bubble inside the line caused the line to burp, and 200-degree hot sugar cane juice inside the line splattered onto the employees.
Two employees sustained first and second degree burns.
An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.
An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.
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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.