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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc.

Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc., 601 Third St., LAMPASAS, TEXAS 76550 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was disassembling a dull extruder machine when the machine's plate crushed the employee's left ring and middle fingers, fracturing one and crushing the bone in the other. Both fingers had to be surgically amputated above the first knuckle.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.

Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc.

An employee was carrying empty boxes when she tripped between two pallets and fell, breaking her hip and requiring hospitalization.

Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc.

An employee was attempting to remove a dough buildup from a line when the line amputated the employee's left ring and middle fingers to the first knuckle.

Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc.

An employee was driving a forklift into the freezer to retrieve product. As the employee traveled over an uneven portion of the floor, it caused the forklift to swerve. The employee's left elbow was caught between the forklift and a post, breaking bones and dislocating the left elbow.

AJINOMOTO WINDSOR INC.

While an employee was cleaning a bagging machine on 1/23/2016, the employee's fingertip was caught and amputated in the machine.

Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc.

An employee was operating a Solbern conveyor. The products being transported on the conveyor became jammed at the end of the conveyor. The operator attempted to clear the jam by reaching underneath the conveyor and removing the product that was stuck between the conveyor and a tray. The operator's right ring finger was caught in a belt underneath the conveyor and the skin was peeled from the tip of the finger. The finger was amputated just below the finger nail at the hospital.

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An employee had been cutting lumber for a shed wall. A load of 16-foot trim pieces fell onto the employee causing vertebrae and ankle fractures.

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An employee was unloading 30-foot 2-inch barrels from a pan holding about 20 barrels. The barrels tipped over, striking and breaking both of the employee's lower legs.

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An employee was in a sandblasting area, preparing the surface of a plate heat exchanger frame for painting. The frame fell on the employee, who suffered fractures to vertebrae, the neck, pelvis, and rib cage; and punctured lungs.

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An employee was installing doors when one of the doors fell on him, fracturing his lower leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

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An employee was performing maintenance under a kettle. When he removed a tri-clamp on a transfer line, the hot fat and broth material in the kettle poured out onto his arm. The employee was hospitalized with burns.

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An employee was walking on top of boiler to close a valve. The employee fell off the boiler and landed on the floor, sustaining fractured ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Sage V Foods, LLC

An employee was inspecting a pipe in the rice cooking area near an oven. While checking for a clog, the fingers of their right hand were caught in an airlock at the base of the pipe. All the fingers were amputated except the thumb. The employee was hospitalized.

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An employee was removing dough from the discharge at the bottom of a mixer when the scraper contacted his left index finger and amputated it.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.