Fractures

Name: Fractures at Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc.
Start: 4/1/2025

1 hospitalization · 2025043051 · 4/1/2025 · Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Other finger(s) n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation
Source: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
Secondary source: Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name: Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc.
Location: 36142 Marshall Hutts Rd, RIO HONDO, TEXAS, 78583
NAICS: 237130
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

Two employees were lifting a radio antenna up the tower using a winch when the rope got bound up in the spool of the winch. They were repositioning the spool of rope when the winch began to take the rope more quickly and pulled the injured employee's left hand that was holding the rope into the winch. The employee's left middle and ring fingers were injured and the little finger was broken.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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