105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Weatherford International

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Weatherford International, 11939 ALDINE WESTFIELD ROAD, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77093 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was sanding a part after welding it. His right thumb was caught between the metal and the sanding belt and was amputated below the fingernail.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.

Weatherford International

An employee was assisting with the assembly of a cross-over sub. He picked up a 158-pound cross-over sub to place on a stand. His right index finger became caught between the sub and the stand. His finger was crushed and amputated.

WEATHERFORD INTERNATIONAL

Three employees were moving a tool from the wash bay to two tool stands. The rear tool stand became caught on the lip of the floor and collapsed, causing the tool to fall off the stand. One of the employees attempted to catch the tool, resulting in it falling onto and amputating his left small finger.

Weatherford International

An employee was testing a 10,000 lb. frac valve. The quarter-inch needle valve came off and pressurized water shot through his left thigh.

Weatherford International

On 05/04/2015, at approximately 12:45 PM, an employee was assembling tools to hammer down some parts in the shop area of the work facility. His hand slipped, and the tool struck his right hand, amputating the right little fingertip. He was hospitalized.

Weatherford International

An employee was opening a gate when the last finger of the employee's left hand was pinched in a roller; the fingertip was amputated.

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Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

OKLAHOMA STEEL & WIRE CO. INC.

An employee was driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) carrying a nesting sheave on the back counterweight of the PIT. He was holding the sheave when the PIT struck a pothole in the floor, causing the sheave to roll forward and crush his right index fingertip against the back of the PIT seat frame. The employee's fingertip was amputated, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Certified Slings & Supply

An employee was building slings. They were placing wire rope in a pneumatic vise when their right index finger was caught between the vise and the wire rope, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

Trion Industries, Inc.

On September 15, 2025, an employee was working on an auto-welder when the guard closed on their left ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Bright Coop, Inc

At about 7:15 a.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was using a construction compactor to stabilize the dirt of a dam that had just been built. The dirt gave way underneath the compactor, which tipped on its left side. The employee fell out and was crushed and pinned between the compactor and the dirt. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken sternum and broken ribs on both sides, as well as a laceration to the left leg by the ankle joint.

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

A temporary employee was stripping wire for scrap when the machine crushed their left thumb and little finger.

T G Meat Center LLC

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.

Professional Flooring Supply

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.

Inteplast Group

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

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

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.