| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-31 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group, Ltd. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was attempting to reconnect a hose when the thumb hole punch unit amputated the employee's right ring and pinky fingertips. The unit was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2019-04-29 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was switching rail cars. After he stepped off a railcar onto the rail, the railcar that was just uncoupled rolled over his right foot. Three toes were crushed and the tips of two toes were surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2018-07-12 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group, Ltd. | Multiple body parts | Direct exposure to electricity |
| An electrical engineer was checking a newly installed cooling fan in the drive cabinet and received electrical burns to both arms and the face. | |||||
| 2018-03-08 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was reaching into equipment and caught the left thumb between the metal pulley and the rubber pulley belt resulting in amputation at the first joint. | |||||
| 2018-02-28 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group Ltd | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was using a die tool to remove a die blade when his left pinky finger was caught between the tool and the blade, amputating his fingertip. | |||||
| 2018-02-26 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group Ltd | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was attempting to remove a stuck turret roller when a left-hand fingertip was caught and amputated on the turret roller. | |||||
| 2018-02-07 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| An employee was clearing a jam on a production line and lacerated his right pinky fingertip. | |||||
| 2017-06-21 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee went to check a time-out on a blender tank that was jammed. He was trying to clear the jam when the blender's slide gate closed on and amputated his left ring, middle, and pointer fingertips. The blender cover was removed at the time of the incident. An employee was collecting plastic sheets from a table and got his finger caught on the green band on the table roller resulting in amputation of the right pinky finger. Note to user: This record contains two separate events that w | |||||
| 2017-04-23 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
| Two employees were removing an air shaft. When one employee pulled the shaft, the other employee's left ring fingertip was amputated. | |||||
| 2017-04-04 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Fingertip(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
| An employee was using a manual paper cutter and aligning the material to be cut when the cutter arm fell and lacerated the employee's left hand middle finger. The fingertip was amputated in order to close the wound. | |||||
| 2017-02-09 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Nonclassifiable | Caught in running equipment or machinery |
| On 2-9-17, at 2:30 p.m., an employee was removing a film wrap from a metal chill roller when he was caught in the equipment, suffering lacerations, contusions, and abrasions. | |||||
| 2017-02-04 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| On 2/4/17, at 2:30 p.m., an employee was checking for an air leak inside the cabinet of a bag machine and amputated his left ring fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-07-18 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group Corporation | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was packing plastic bags when a bag became stuck in the winder. The employee attempted to remove the bag from the winder and his right arm was caught in the winder and fractured. | |||||
| 2016-05-08 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group Ltd | Fingertip(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was working on a printing press and pinched a finger resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2016-04-13 | Lolita | Texas | Spiretek International | Wrist(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| An employee was operating a forklift when the forklift lost traction and hit a racking system. When the employee attempted to brace himself, his right hand was caught between the mast and the rack, pinning his right wrist. | |||||
| 2015-09-19 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group, Ltd. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee amputated the left index finger on a bag machine producing plastic film. | |||||
| 2015-06-25 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group Ltd | Fingertip(s) | Entangled in other object or equipment |
| An employee's left pinky fingertip was lacerated when caught in a slip knot during the start-up of the Line 10 machine. The fingertip was amputated during treatment. | |||||
| 2015-06-22 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group Ltd | Nonclassifiable | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| An employee was struck by and ran over by a forklift. | |||||
| 2015-05-01 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group, Ltd. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee got his hand caught in the blade of a grinder cutting the fingertip and nail of the 3rd digit of the right hand. The fingertip was surgically amputated. | |||||
| 2015-03-11 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group | Nonclassifiable | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
| An employee disconnected a crane that was holding a 3000-pound die. The die tilted over and fell on top of the employee. The die was not bolted in place at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2015-01-31 | Lolita | Texas | Inteplast Group, Ltd. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The employee placed hand into an extruder machine while trying to feed film into the machine and came into contact with the metal auger in the machine severing three fingers on the right hand. | |||||