Amputations

Name: Amputations at Tex-Fab, Inc.
Start: 9/10/2018

1 amputation · 2018099331 · 9/10/2018 · Tex-Fab, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery

Employer

Name: Tex-Fab, Inc.
Location: 23138 US Hwy 290, CYPRESS, TEXAS, 77429
NAICS: 332313
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a tool to check the correct diameter of sheet metal in a roller machine when his gloved right hand was caught by the roller and pulled into the machine, crushing four fingers. As a result, the four fingers were amputated.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown