105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

DENTON, TEXAS—

United Copper Industries Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Final narrative

The employee reached over a safeguard to push a coil towards the wrapping machine. While pushing, he triggered the proximity switch for the seal bar to come down. The seal bar came down on top of his hand, which was between the seal bar and the coil. The safety device, which makes the seal bar retract when it makes contact with an object, failed. The seal bar remained in the lowered position. The employee tried to pull his left hand out of the equipment resulting in the amputation of the middle fingertip.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

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