Amputations

Name: Amputations at CMC Commercial Metals
Start: 10/1/2019

1 amputation · 20191010287 · 10/1/2019 · CMC Commercial Metals

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 during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: CMC Commercial Metals
Location: 3501 W. 2nd, ODESSA, TEXAS, 79763
NAICS: 238190
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was attempting to troubleshoot an issue with a shaker table that continued to break belts connected to the oscillator. The pulley turned and pulled the employee's thumb in between the sheave and the belt, resulting in an amputation to the right thumb above the knuckle.

Source

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