Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Name: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Southeast Soils Inc.
Start: 3/4/2025

1 amputation · 2025032070 · 3/4/2025 · Southeast Soils Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s) and finger(s)
Nature of injury: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Cause

Event: Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
Source: Machinery unspecified
Secondary source: Hydraulic and pressurized hoses, lines

Employer

Name: Southeast Soils Inc.
Location: 1650 County Road 470 West, OKAHUMPKA, FLORIDA, 34762
NAICS: 325998
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning a tail pulley machine with a compressed air hose when the air hose nozzle got caught in the machine and pulled his hand in. The employee sustained amputation of the ring fingertip and a degloving of his hand. The machine was not guarded at the time.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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