Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Affordable Interior Systems, Inc., 1110 Industrial Blvd, CAMERON, TEXAS 76520
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was using a 3-foot-long pipe cleaner brush to clean the rollers on a glue spreader machine. She dropped the pipe cleaner, and while retrieving it her right hand became caught in the rollers resulting in amputation to the ring finger at the second joint.
HospitalizedAmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Special process machinery, n.e.c.
More severe injuries at Affordable Interior Systems, Inc.
An employee was installing a gravity fed conveyor belt when his left ring finger was crushed between two conveyor systems. His left ring finger broke and had to be medically amputated at the first knuckle.
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.
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.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 337211)
An employee was working with an up-cut saw. The pedal to start the machine actuated and the employee's left hand was caught in the area where wood is fed into the saw. The saw blade amputated their left index and middle fingers.
A employee was using a reach truck to retrieve material when their left foot became caught between the reversing reach truck and the vertical shelf structure behind the reach truck, resulting in fractures to the fourth and fifth digits.
On June 14, 2024, an employee was forming a part on the hydraulic brake press and suffered a partial amputation of the left middle finger through the nailbed.
A maintenance technician was working on an exhaust fan on the roof of the facility. Their gloved hand contacted the running belt and was pulled into the pulley, amputating their right index fingertip, just below the fingernail.
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.
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.
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.