Slip without fall, unspecified · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Benteler Steel, 11090 Hwy 1, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA 71115
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the lower leg(s).
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Final narrative
A maintenance employee was working on a banding machine when he slipped/lost his footing and his left leg/calf hit a piece of steel pipe, suffering a laceration.
An employee was working from a platform ladder, spraying a tank with water to clean it. The employee slipped; as she tried to steady herself, her right middle finger was caught in a pinch point. The fingertip was amputated and she was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was working on a baker scaffold when he slipped, causing his left arm to strike the railing. His left arm was punctured from a stacking pin on the scaffold frame.
An employee was working on a washer. He was standing behind the machine and walked through the hydraulic absorbent pad. As he walked around the machine he slipped and put his hand down to brace himself. The employee contacted the machine's belt and pulley, resulting in a hand injury. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.
An employee was cutting wooden boards using a table saw when the glove on his left hand was caught by the blade, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.
An employee was placing a board on top of a bundle of steel tubing. A crane was moving a bundle of steel that struck the employee and caught them against another bundle of steel tubing. The employee sustained a crushing injury and hematoma to the right upper leg.
A crane was hoisting a pipe. An employee was adjusting twisted lifting chains on the end of the pipe when the pipe was raised, causing the employee's hands to be caught between the chains and the pipe. The employee suffered injuries to the left index finger, left ring finger, right ring finger, and right index finger; the right index fingertip was amputated without bone loss.
During a routine inspection, an employee placed their hand on a pipe to check a weld. The pipe clamp activated, closed on the pipe, and trapped the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a partial amputation and fracture to the fingertip as well as a laceration to the ring finger.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.