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Lewis Food Town, Inc.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lewis Food Town, Inc., 3316 South Shaver, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77054 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

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An employee was cutting meat using a band saw when the blade cut the bottom of his right index fingertip below the nail. His fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Butchering machinery

Lewis Food Town, Inc.

An employee was cutting beef feet on a meat saw. The blade caught and a beef foot part jumped. The saw amputated the employee's left middle finger between the first and second joints.

Lewis Food Town Inc.

An employee was cutting a top round steak at 1/8 inch, at a customer's request. His hand slipped and contacted the saw blade partially amputating the left middle fingertip. The blade was not guarded at the time.

Lewis Food Town, Inc

An employee was slicing boneless round steaks on a meat saw and amputated the right index fingertip.

Lewis Food Town Inc.

An employee was cutting pork loin chops on a bone-in band saw when the bone slipped from his grip. When the bone hit the saw, it caused his right index finger to hit the saw blade. When he pulled his index finger back, the saw caught his middle finger diagonally from the top joint upwards to the fingertip. He received an amputation of the distal half of the distal phalanx of the right middle finger and a soft tissue avulsion of the tuft on the index finger.

Lewis Food Town Inc.

An employee was operating a bone-in saw to cut meat when his left hand slipped off the meat and contacted the blade, amputating his left index fingertip.

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An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

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An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.

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An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.

BBCJ LUMBER LLC

An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.

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An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

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Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

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An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

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An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

T G Meat Center LLC

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.

Professional Flooring Supply

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.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

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

Inteplast Group

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

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

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.