Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-09-22 | Saginaw | Tx | UFP Saginaw, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was operating equipment that produced wooden stakes. Lumber became jammed, and as the employee tried to free it, his left little finger was caught between the end of a piece of lumber and the side of a conveyor belt. The finger was pinched and required partial medical amputation. | |||||
2021-08-12 | Saginaw | Tx | STANDARD MEAT COMPANY | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a packaging machine. As he tried to remove a piece of plastic that was stuck inside the machine, one of the machine's knives cut his right ring finger and nicked his right little finger. The tip of the ring finger was amputated. | |||||
2021-04-23 | Saginaw | Tx | MID CITIES ERECTORS | Ankle(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
A forklift ran over an employee's foot as it backed up. The employee suffered a broken ankle. | |||||
2020-08-05 | Saginaw | Tx | CTI Foods, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
A can punch was activated and caught the tips of two fingers on an employee's left hand, leading to the amputation of the smallest phalanges on each finger. | |||||
2019-06-17 | Saginaw | Texas | Bana Box, Inc. | Elbow(s) | Struck by discharged object or substance |
On June 17, 2019, an employee was stapling wood together using a pneumatic staple gun. The gun shot a staple into the employee's elbow. | |||||
2019-06-10 | Saginaw | Texas | CTI Foods | Multiple body parts | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
An employee was cleaning out a kettle when the contents in the kettle overheated, boiled out, and splashed him. He sustained chemical burns on his right arm, back, and hips. | |||||
2019-04-19 | Saginaw | Alabama | Dunn Construction Company, Inc. | Upper and lower limb(s) | Contact with hot objects or substances |
An employee was walking by a pipe that was placed on a stand to be unclogged of liquid asphalt. The heated asphalt bubbled out of the pipe and onto the employee as he walked by, burning his arms and legs. | |||||
2019-04-18 | Saginaw | Texas | Universal Forest Products, Inc. | Hand(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a drill press. His glove was caught while he was cleaning sawdust off the machine. The employee sustained a severe laceration to his hand. | |||||
2018-09-20 | Saginaw | Texas | Bana Box | Hand(s) | Direct exposure to electricity |
An employee was conducting maintenance on a conveyor belt when an electrical discharge occurred, causing burns to his right hand. The conveyor was not locked/tagged out at the time. | |||||
2018-05-25 | Saginaw | Texas | Universal Forest Products | Forearm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was cleaning between two CNC machines while they were operating. One of the tables struck the employee, injuring their left arm between the elbow and the hand. | |||||
2018-02-12 | Saginaw | Texas | Attebury Grain, LLC | Multiple body parts | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was riding a continuous belt manlift down to the ground floor where he lost his footing and his leg became caught in the landing/step off at the ground floor. He suffered a laceration to the back of his right leg and his head. | |||||
2017-04-12 | Saginaw | Texas | CTI FOODS LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was releasing water from the hopper that was in operation. As he was releasing connections, he braced himself with his hand on an opening. His hand slipped and contacted the hopper lift resulting in amputation of the index, middle, and ring fingers up to the middle knuckles on his left hand. | |||||
2017-03-15 | Saginaw | Texas | Universal Forest Products | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting pieces of wood with an under-mounted table top router and amputated the left index fingertip. | |||||
2016-06-09 | Saginaw | Alabama | Saginaw Pipe | Elbow(s) | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was loading a truck's flatbed trailer when he stepped on a piece of flat bar that flexed and fell 6 feet to the ground below. He fractured his left elbow. | |||||
2016-04-14 | Saginaw | Alabama | Saginaw Pipe Co., Inc. | Foot (feet) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was operating a crane when a piece of steel tubing fell on and crushed his left foot. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-10-28 | Saginaw | Texas | Gavilon Grain | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
The employee was inspecting the grain sampler on the #3 leg that was not working properly. The employee disconnected the air supply on the sampler. He then turned the sampler to dislodge the material. The sampler moved and amputated his right middle finger. | |||||
2015-10-03 | Saginaw | Texas | Northwest Pipe | Thigh(s) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee drove a forklift to the maintenance area and parked in front of the maintenance door. As he was descending out of the cab, he slipped and fell fracturing the left femur. | |||||
2015-08-24 | Saginaw | Texas | Packer Sanitation Services | Hand(s), except finger(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was cleaning a pressure cooker with a water hose. His left hand got caught in the rotating blade inside the machine and was amputated above the wrist. | |||||
2015-08-10 | Saginaw | Texas | JLB Contracting, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Sudden start or stop, nonroadway |
The employee was operating a front end loader moving dirt. The employee hit a pile of dirt and came to an immediate stop causing the door to slam on his left index fingertip. | |||||
2015-06-09 | Saginaw | Texas | Northwest Pipe Company | Thigh(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was placing a chock onto pipe to stabilize it on the conveyor. The employee tried to go over the machinery instead of around it, and his right thigh got caught by the moving conveyor machinery. He sustained a severe laceration and torn muscle, requiring surgery. | |||||
2015-03-24 | Saginaw | Texas | CTI FOODS | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
When an employee stepped off of a forklift to disconnect it, the unit moved, catching his foot between the forklift and the battery charging station. The employee broke bones in his toes. |