Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Federal Bureau of Prisons, FCC Terre Haute, 4200 Bureau Road North, TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA 47802
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was using a table saw for cedar woodworking and amputated two fingers.
An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.
An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 922140)
An employee was working in the food service warehouse when he experienced chest pain, difficulty breathing, and lost consciousness. The employee sustained carbon monoxide poisoning.
An employee was responding to a physical altercation between two inmates when they slipped and fell on the ground, landing on their left arm. The employee was hospitalized with a compound fracture to their left forearm.
An employee was working on an out-of-service forklift when his hand was caught in the door frame as the stuck cab door was being opened. The employee sustained a middle fingertip amputation.
An employee was walking down a staircase when their heel caught on a stair and they fell, resulting in hospitalization for a punctured lung and broken ribs.
An employee was standing on the outside edge of a hopper barge while watching a skid steer push ore for an excavator (with a clamshell bucket) to unload. The excavator was on a work barge. The bucket of the excavator struck the employee and caused a near-amputation of their right arm and fractures of the ulna and radius of the left arm. The right arm required surgery.
The injured employee was performing roofing work with a crew. A mop was being used to apply tar to the roof. Hot tar splashed onto the injured employee's left hand. The back of their hand was burned.