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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

CAPFORM, INC.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at CAPFORM, INC., 300 BISCAYNE WAY, MIAMI, FLORIDA 33131 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was signaling a crane operator to hoist a form. As the crane lifted the load, the spreader bar chain pinched the employee's left middle finger. The finger was amputated.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Cranes, unspecified

Capform Inc.

Employees were repairing a metal truss. As they lowered it to the ground, its weight shifted toward one of the employees. The employee's left index finger was caught between the edge of the truss and a steel-toe boot and was amputated between the first knuckle and the lower part of the nailbed. The employee was hospitalized.

CAPFORM, INC.

Two employees were taking cross-braces off a shoring tower and handing them to a third employee at the base of the frame. They were working from the top down, and had removed the braces from the top two sections; as they began to remove the braces from the bottom section, the tower tipped over and landed on the employee on the ground. The employee suffered three broken vertebrae and three dislocated vertebrae in the back.

CAPFORM, INC.

Three employees were attempting to relocate a shoring tower when the tower fell over and struck them. One of the employees received neck injuries and required stitches to the index and ring fingers. A second employee fractured the lower left leg and was hospitalized. The third employee received a contusion to the right hand.

CapForm Inc.

An employee was cutting plywood with a powered hand saw when his left index finger touched the saw blade and was amputated.

CAPFORM, INC.

An employee was removing shoring material when it slipped out of the employee's hand and amputated the right pinky fingertip.

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An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

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An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

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An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.