CARROLLTON, TEXAS—
Western Extrusions Corporation
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Amputations
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Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Western Extrusions Corporation, 1735 Sandy Lake Road, CARROLLTON, TEXAS 75006 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was moving metal billets onto a load table with an overhead crane. The employee's fingers were caught between two billets, causing the amputation of the right fourth and fifth fingers.
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CARROLLTON, TEXAS—
Western Extrusions Corporation
Two employees were changing a breaker. While they were reinstalling the cover, it touched a live incoming electrical line. One of the employees suffered burns to his hands; the other suffered flash burns to his face.
PENNSAUKEN, NEW JERSEY—
Western Extrusions Corporation
An employee was removing the hook that was latched to the anchor point of the grabber. During that process, the grabber fell, flipped over, and the employee's hand got caught in the anchor point. The employee sustained amputation of his left ring fingertip.
PENNSAUKEN, NEW JERSEY—
Western Extrusions Corporation
An employee was moving a cabinet using a cart. The cart hit an uneven floor surface and started to tip over. While the employee was trying to stop items from falling, his right ring fingertip was caught between the cabinet and the cart. The fingertip was amputated.
CARROLLTON, TEXAS—
Western Extrusions Corporation
An employee was helping a saw operator cut scrap aluminum by pushing aluminum profiles along a roller table into a saw. Starting the saw also activated a clamp to hold the material to be cut; the clamp forced the material down onto the employee's hand, which was pinned between the material and the table. He suffered a partial amputation to the left ring fingertip.
WEBSTER, TEXAS—
Western Extrusions Corporation
An employee was removing the straps from a load on a flatbed 18-wheeler. As the employee removed the last two straps, two bundles of aluminum extrusion (30 feet long, weighing 866 and 699 pounds) fell from the side of the load and struck him. He suffered severe fractures to the right leg, as well as fissures to his vertebrae.
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