105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC.

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC., 3701 HOLMES RD, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77051 on — Fractures , affecting the Wrist(s).

An employee was operating a lathe in a machine shop. The rotating head of the lathe caught the employee's left glove, resulting in a compound open fracture to the left wrist and a laceration to left ear.

Hospitalized Wrist(s) Lathes

PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS INC.

An employee was adjusting a reroller machine. The employee's right forearm was pulled into the dies and fractured. The machine was not guarded at the time.

PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS INC.

An employee was spotting for a forklift driver. His left hand was caught and crushed between the forklift's mast and a crate. Four of the fingers were injured and required surgery.

PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC.

While cleaning the expanding machine, an employee was about to replace the dies when he smashed his left thumb between the dies. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

Day & Zimmermann Lone Star LLC

An employee was working on a production line. The employee went to retrieve parts that came out of the parts holder, and their left hand became caught between a chain and a sprocket. Three fingers on the hand were amputated.

Ingalls Shipbuilding

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

Galaxy Balloons Inc.

An employee was operating a pad printer. The employee's finger was caught in the printer and they suffered a fingertip amputation. The part of the printer that caught the employee's finger was unguarded at the time.

Valiant Steel & Equipment, Inc.

An employee was rolling a pipe in a cutting rack and his right little finger became caught between sections of the pipe. The employee's finger was surgically amputated.

Titan Mechanical, Inc

An employee was working a vertical bandsaw, cutting half-inch diameter rods into pieces. While using a steel chisel to move the cut pieces, the blade caught his leather glove and pulled his index finger in. The employee sustained an amputation of the finger between the first and second knuckle.

Tenaris Bay City, Inc.

An employee was descending the stairs of an oil/gas rig. As he approached the fifth step from the bottom, he slipped. His left ankle was caught in the steps, and he suffered fractures to the left fibula, tibia, and talus. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Tulsa Tube Bending Co., Inc.

The injured employee was loading a piece of pipe into a pipe bending machine. He had his right hand on the front of the loader while his left hand supported the piece of pipe in the back. A second operator had slightly clamped around the pipe to keep it in place. The third operator called out a measurement. The machine actuated and caught the the injured employee's left middle and ring fingers between the wiper and the material. The employee required surgery and sustained amputations to the distal joint of the middle and ring fingers.

Greens Bayou pipe mill

On May 17, 2025, at 8:30 a.m., an employee was placing a wooden chock under a pipe to secure it in place for welding. The combined weight of the pipe and chock caused the chock to crush the employee's left ring and middle fingertips against the floor, resulting in hospitalization.

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.