Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Birla Carbon, 370 COLUMBIAN CHEMICALS LANE, CENTERVILLE, LOUISIANA 70522
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was removing a damaged boiler door using a chain hoist. The door slipped off the hinge and pinned the employee's left thumb, crushing and partially amputating the tip. The employee was hospitalized and another part of the thumb was surgically amputated.
HospitalizedAmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 325182)
An employee was using a metal scoop to pull a product sample from an enclosed conveyor belt. The scoop became caught on the conveyor and the employee's left thumb was pinched between the conveyor housing and the scoop. The distal phalanx of the thumb was amputated.
An employee was attempting to open the lid on a oil car from a fixed ladder approximately 11-12 feet above the ground. The employee slipped and fell off the ladder to the ground below, resulting in a torn muscle in their right arm and an oblique fracture in their right leg.
An employee was helping a forklift operator stack empty sacks on a pallet. The forks of the fork truck were raised, and the employee's right index finger became stuck in an open hole in the fork, amputating his fingertip.
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.