Sabre Industries

An employee was using a crane to move a pole through the squaring press for the third pressing operation. The attachments used to support the pole fell. The top attachment, the die, which supports the knuckle of the pole and weighs approximately 125 pounds, stuck the employee's ankle just above his metatarsal guard. The employee sustained a right ankle laceration requiring surgery to repair a tendon.

An employee was securing two pipes on a band saw. His right hand was placed between the pipes when the pressure switch was activated. The two pipes rolled together and the employee sustained an avulsion to right index finger, amputation of the right middle fingertip and distal finger fracture.

While cleaning the plunge plate of a pole using a foot pedal, an employee's left foot fractured after getting caught between the pole and the ladder.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

An employee fell onto a hot billet and suffered a burn to the left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

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.

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

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

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.