Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-02-21 | Scottsville | Tx | General Cable Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was removing aluminum stuck in a cable stripping machine that had just been turned off. A still spinning blade in the machine pulled in the aluminum and the employee's right index finger. The fingertip was amputated, with the loss of the nail bed. | |||||
2019-08-22 | Scottsville | Texas | Prysmian General Cable | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was handling and assembling extruding equipment when his fingertip entered the side port of a head body while inserting the flow divider. This resulted in a left index fingertip amputation. | |||||
2019-04-14 | Scottsville | Texas | General Cable Industries, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
An employee slipped and fell while walking near a water cooling tank that had just overflowed. The employee suffered a broken left femur. | |||||
2017-03-02 | Scottsville | Texas | GENERAL CABLE | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was about to weld a piece of cable from the east side cable to the west side cable. The west side was already clamped off and the employee was putting the east side into the clamp on the cable welder. As he was lowering the guard, the clamp guard actuated catching his right middle finger in the clamp and amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2015-12-07 | Scottsville | New York | SABIN Metal Corporation | Multiple body parts | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee tripped and fell over a bucket containing a sodium hydroxide (10-15%) solution. The employee suffered chemical burns to the arms, back and legs. |