Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Name: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified at J-B Weld Company, LLC
Start: 7/16/2025

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2025076900 · 7/16/2025 · J-B Weld Company, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified

Cause

Event: Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
Source: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
Secondary source: Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name: J-B Weld Company, LLC
Location: 400 CMH Road, SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, 75482
NAICS: 339999
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was filling a blister feed on a machine and aligning a plate when her left middle finger got caught between the machine and the plate. The machine started and the blister feed came up and crushed her finger, resulting in hospitalization and a surgical fingertip amputation.

Source

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