Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at H & S Constructors, Inc., GPS_Coordinates: 27?46'55.96"N, 99?24'51.63"W, LAREDO, TEXAS 78045
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was attempting to line up two I-beams measuring 7 to 8 feet to get them ready to be moved by a forklift. As he slid the top I-beam over the other, the back end of the I-beam slipped, causing the front of the beam to contact the employee's left ring finger and cut the fingertip, resulting in an amputation.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Beams and rails metal
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An employee was working under a truck. When he removed the drive shaft, the vehicle began to roll backwards. The truck's catalytic converter then struck his chest area, injuring his ribs and clavicle. He was hospitalized.
An employee was climbing a scaffold when the scaffold came apart. The employee fell 12-15 feet to the ground resulting in a upper left thigh laceration and a compression fracture to the T10 vertebra.
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