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Anderson Perforating Services LLC

Demolition or blasting explosion · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Anderson Perforating Services LLC, 124 Welco Rd., ALBANY, TEXAS 76430 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

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An employee was helping to download shaped charges. During the process, a charge exploded directly over the employee's left hand. The employee suffered lacerations and burns to his left hand. He was hospitalized, and his left little finger was surgically amputated.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Explosives, blasting agents, n.e.c.

Anderson Perforating Services, LLC

The worker was rotating the "setting tool" and placed their left middle finger inside the tool. The finger was amputated and the employee was hospitalized.

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North America Explosive Services

An employee placed an explosive in the economizer hole and another employee then set the blast. When the explosive blast occurred, the injured employee sustained amputations to fingers on the right hand.

BSX, LLC

An employee was cutting a piece of aluminum using a torch. Unexploded ammunition inside the piece exploded, creating shrapnel that struck the employee. The employee suffered a chest contusion and a laceration up the left arm.

Wilderness Earthworks LLC

An employee was preparing a boulder for demolition. The employee drilled the boulder in two places using a jackhammer and loaded the first hole with a charge. The charge was a dud so the employee flushed out the hole with pressurized water. The employee put gel into the second hole to expand and hold the charge. The second charge was also a dud. The employee flushed the second hole with pressurized water, releasing both charges. The employee drilled another hole and an unknown charge released, causing debris to go into the employee's face and arms. The employee was hospitalized.

Meylan Special Services

An employee was holding a pole with an explosive charge on the end of it, which was being used to de-slag a boiler. The explosive charge ignited and caused lacerations to the employee's left hand which resulted in amputation of the hand.

Precision Blasting, Inc.

A contractor employee sustained a possible amputation of the left leg below the knee during explosive blasting.

3S Services, LLC

An employee had been cleaning the work area. While lifting a saw, the employee's index finger was lacerated by the saw blade. A tendon was cut and required surgery.

Roby's Propane Gas

An employee was delivering home heating fuel when bees came from the ground and stung the employee's face, neck, torso, and hands. The employee proceeded to shut off the oil flow before losing consciousness. They were hospitalized due to an anaphylactic reaction.

Myers Trucking, Inc.

An employee was using a torch to loosen a bolt on a water trailer. Natural gas was present in the water and it ignited, causing a fire. The employee sustained third-degree burns to their upper leg.

Weatherford U.S., L.P.

An employee had been conducting crane operations. The employee went to stop a piece of oil and gas equipment for tubular running from falling over to the ground. Their right hand was caught between a rolling ladder and the equipment, resulting in fractures to the index and middle fingers. They were hospitalized and the middle finger required surgery.

Helmerich & Payne IDC Inc

An employee was working to install a drive belt on a water pump. He was holding the belt on both sides of the pulley, working to route it over the top. As he pulled down with his right hand, the pulley rotated and the belt slid over it, pulling his left little finger between the pulley and the belt. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip as well as a fracture to the ring finger.

T G Meat Center LLC

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.

Professional Flooring Supply

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.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

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.