Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Crushing injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Affordable Interior Systems, Inc., 1110 Industrial Blvd, CAMERON, TEXAS 76520
on — Crushing injuries, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee went to change tooling on a routing machine when the machine crushed and cut his left thumb, ring, and little fingers.
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.
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.
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 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.
On December 20, 2022, an employee was working with a machine. He had just placed material into the machine's drilling area, and was lowering the material hold-down to start the drilling process, when the hold-down caught his hand. The rotating drill bit contacted his right ring fingertip, amputating it in the fingernail area.
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.