Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ring Power Corporation, 1544 E 8th Street, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 32206
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
On July 8, 2023, in the enclosure shop, an employee and two co-workers were setting a metal sheet onto the manually-operated lifting rail. As they tilted the lifting rail so that the metal sheet would move to the outside yard, the injured employee's right hand was caught between two moving parts of the lifting rail. His right middle finger was amputated at the distal joint and his right ring finger was lacerated.
After repairing a piece of industrial equipment, an employee had brake-cleaning liquid on his gloves. A lighter ignited the liquid, and the employee's hands were severely burned.
On June 15, 2023, an employee was on a 6-foot A-frame ladder, installing a receptacle for a flat-screen television in an office. As he descended the ladder to retrieve a tool, he fell to the floor and sustained fractures to the right forearm/wrist.
On January 27, 2023, an employee was taking the trash out to the dumpster located outside at the back of the building when she tripped and fell over the wheel blocks of the dumpster and onto the asphalt pavement. She sustained a left compound wrist fracture that required hospitalization.
An employee was trying to repair a standing lift truck/material handler, supported on jack stands, by removing a sheared-off threaded rod with vise grips in his hands. The forks shifted off the jack stands and fell onto his right hand, puncturing it between the ring and little fingers. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery.
An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.
An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.
An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.
An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.
An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
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