Amputations

Name: Amputations at Southtex Asphalt Services
Start: 11/21/2023

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 20231110732 · 11/21/2023 · Southtex Asphalt Services

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
Source: Trailers

Employer

Name: Southtex Asphalt Services
Location: Sunset Gardens Apartments, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77051
NAICS: 324121
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was dumping concrete material from the bed of a dump trailer. The employee went to lower the bed and their left hand became caught between the bed of the trailer and the frame of the dump trailer. The employee sustained amputations of the first digits of their index and middle fingers.

Source

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