Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bennett onSite Services, LLC, 4836 W. Loop 2815, LONGVIEW, TEXAS 75603
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was loading crane equipment onto a trailer truck. The employee was adjusting a pin on mats being stacked to a load when the employee's left ring and middle fingers were caught between the trailer and the mats. Both fingers sustained amputations.
An employee was placing an empty wood pallet on 55-gallon drums when a nail, protruding from the pallet, tore through his finger. The fingertip was amputated.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 212111)
An employee was showing another employee his gun. The gun fell to the floor and discharged, hitting the second employee in the left thigh. The second employee was hospitalized.
An employee was in a scissor lift repairing an oven. A pusher struck the scissor lift. The employee sustained extensive facial and orbital fractures, a left scapula fracture, a T-12 compression fracture, a C-1 fracture, multiple fractured ribs on the left side, a chest wall laceration, upper lip laceration, and a laceration to the nasal tip.
An employee was working an overtime shift on top of a battery area when the employee became ill due to heat and dehydration. The employee was hospitalized for acute kidney failure and dehydration.
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 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.