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

SUPERIOR ESSEX

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at SUPERIOR ESSEX, 2900 MORRIS SHEPPARD DR., BROWNWOOD, TEXAS 76801 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was cleaning a hopper when an extruding screw caught the tip of his right index finger. The fingertip was amputated.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Machinery, unspecified

SUPERIOR ESSEX

At 5:40 p.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was traversing cable onto a reel when the line sped up. The cable caught his glove and pulled his left ring finger onto the spool, causing a partial amputation to the finger.

SUPERIOR ESSEX

An employee was making repairs on a jacket line using a forklift. The employee's left thumb was caught between the forklift's forks and a clamp. The thumb tip was amputated.

SUPERIOR ESSEX

An employee was repositioning the print tape that prints labeling on a cable. The tape stuck to his finger when he tried to position it on the cable, causing his finger to get caught between the print wheel and the cable resulting in an amputation injury.

SUPERIOR ESSEX

An employee was attempting to load a reel in a machine. While he was lining up the reel with the pintle and operating the controls with his left hand, the reel shifted and smashed his right-hand fingers between the reel and the pintle. His right index fingertip was amputated as a result.

Superior Essex

An employee's thumb was partially amputated while performing maintenance on a primary machine. Four of the employee's fingers were caught in a belt and pulley.

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DGS Import, LLC

An employee was changing a saw blade when the saw machine activated. The employee's left ring and little fingers were amputated.

Millennium Mat Company

An employee was clearing a jam from the label cutting machine when their left middle finger was partially amputated.

Bauer Foundation Corp.

Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.

Guggisberg Cheese, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.

Alsco Inc.

An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

SUPERIOR ESSEX

At 5:40 p.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was traversing cable onto a reel when the line sped up. The cable caught his glove and pulled his left ring finger onto the spool, causing a partial amputation to the finger.

Brightspeed of Pennsylvania, LLC

At 3:45 p.m. on June 30, 2025, an employee was working out of a bucket truck, installing a fiber drop to a customer. The door of the bucket came open and he fell to the ground 12-15 feet below, suffering a brain bleed, facial factures, four fractured ribs, a possible collapsed lung, possible fractured vertebrae, and possible wrist and ankle fractures.

Mears Broadband, LLC

An employee dismounted from a truck trailer, and the employee's left ring finger struck a trailer tire. The employee's wedding ring was caught, and the employee suffered a partial amputation to the finger after the middle knuckle.

Prysmian Group Specialty Cables LLC

An employee was cleaning the gear pump in the front of the compound mixing machine when his left hand was caught in the turning gears causing an amputation to his left index finger below the fingernail at the distal phalange.

Comcast

An employee was conducting maintenance work underneath a vehicle with the two front tires on the ramp. The van rolled off the ramp and crushed the employee's ribs and lungs.

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.