Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bimbo Bakeries USA, 6650 N Houston Rosslyn Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77091
on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was adjusting the sheeter rollers on a bun divider machine with his right hand. As he was making the adjustment (changing the dough pans), he slipped and his left hand slid into the rotating roller, which was unguarded at the time. His left pinky and middle fingers received lacerations and his left ring fingertip was crushed, resulting in a surgical amputation.
AmputationFingertip(s)Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
An employee was operating a motorized tugger when he fell from the tugger to the floor. He was hospitalized with a brain bleed that required surgery and an injury to the left hand.
An employee was working at the bread bagger machine when their left little finger became caught on a sprocket, resulting in amputation to the fingertip.
An employee was running a clean-in-place process on a bun divider machine. He was trying to pull some dough out of the machine when its blades caught his left middle finger. The finger was amputated at the second knuckle.
An employee was clearing a loaf of bread that was causing a pan jam. Their forearm was caught between a pan diverter switch and the conveyor resulting in a severe laceration.
An employee was between the trough and casting pit, cleaning a filter box at the end of a cast. His right foot slipped off the lid of the cast pan and went into an opening where molten aluminum goes into a trough. The employee contacted molten aluminum and sustained third degree burns to his right leg, ankle, and foot.
An employee was aloft in a tree cutting tree limbs. He was using a rope system and while repositioning, he slipped on moss that was on the tree bark and struck his knee awkwardly on the tree. The employee sustained a fractured kneecap and was hospitalized.
An employee was leaning against a fry station when his legs began to slip out from under him. He went to break his fall when his right arm entered the cooking oil. He suffered second- and third-degree burns to the arm.
An employee was unlashing (loosening chains) military vehicles on rail cars prior to offloading. As he stepped off the railcar and onto the ground, he twisted his left ankle in loose gravel alongside the rail track. He required surgery for a dislocated ankle.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 311812)
An employee (who had recently walked through water accumulated on the floor) slipped and fell to the floor. The employee suffered a broken right wrist and right elbow and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was performing maintenance on a production line, requiring a testing and positioning phase for the whipped cream dispensers. The employee was positioning the dispensers using wrenches when one of the sensors was triggered by the pie pans coming down the line. The depositor heads lowered and pinched the employee's left ring finger, resulting in an amputated fingertip. The whipped cream dispensers were not guarded at the time and the line was not locked out/tagged out.
During a line changeover, an employee was rinsing a depositor with water. The employee was working to remove a piece of chocolate, stuck in the machine's roller, when the roller's moving parts caught his middle finger. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip with bone loss.
An employee was emptying a trash can into a dumpster. He tripped while turning around, fell over a rail onto the concrete floor, and broke bones in his back and wrist.
During a changeover, an employee was wiping down the dough chunker machine and the chunker closed on his left hand. The employee sustained crushing/laceration injuries, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
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.