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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Terex USA, LLC

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Terex USA, LLC, 9528 W I-40 Service Road, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73128 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was tightening the belt to a screen drive motor assembly when the employee's right thumb became caught between the belt and pulley, amputating the thumb tip.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Machinery, unspecified

Terex USA, LLC

An employee was helping to assemble telescoping boom sections. Another employee was using a forklift to push the sections of the boom together. During this operation, the injured employee's right hand was inside the boom section to lift up and dislodge the chain, which had become caught on the outer boom. The employee's right middle finger was then caught between the gear and the chain, resulting in an amputation.

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TForce Freight

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.

Liveo Research, Inc.

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.

Best Pump and Flow

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.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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.

Lasseter Tractor Company. Inc.

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.

Riverside Industries LLC

An employee was working behind a stack of steel I-beams (stacked 2 columns deep and 4 levels high on the floor) while a forklift was pushing the stack. When the forklift took off the second-to-last beam, the last one was pushed over, causing it to fall to the ground and strike the employee. The employee sustained a fracture to the right leg.

Bobcat Company

An employee was lifting a flat sub (sheet steel) in the flats robot cell (weld area). He was operating a hoist when his left little fingertip got caught between the lifting device hook and the flat sub. The employee sustained a partial transphalangeal amputation.

Altec Service Center

An employee was underneath a 35-foot boom truck and adjusting the transmission linkage when the truck jumped over the wheel chocks and rolled over the employee's right leg, resulting in a fracture.

GRADALL INDUSTRIES, INC.

A crane was being used to lift a debris tank from a rack. The tank crushed the employee's right hand, causing amputations to the employee's right ring finger and little fingertip.

Manitou Equipment America, LLC

An employee was removing a small sheet metal part out of the die of the brake press. The foot pedal was pressed, causing the part to lift and crush their left thumb against the die. The employee suffered an amputation to the thumb tip including the loss of flesh and the fingernail.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

Meeco Sullivan

An employee was cutting a piece of metal rod with a metal cutting machine. His right middle finger became caught between the rod and the machine's table. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

Edward Jones Investments

An employee was working at her desk. She went to stand up and fell to the floor beside the desk. The employee sustained a hip displacement and required surgery.

Burgess Manufacturing of Oklahoma Inc.

An employee was processing wood boards at a chop saw when the saw malfunctioned and the blade cut her left hand and fingers. She was hospitalized and her little finger was surgically amputated.