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

DALLAS, TEXAS—

Best Block Construction Materials

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.

Final narrative

An employee was making adjustments on a flag indicator for a block unloader machine. The employee had climbed up onto a 12-foot-high block rack to access the flags and make the adjustments. The employee placed his right hand on the track as the unloader returned to gather another row of palletized bricks. The unloader then crushed his fingers, resulting in broken bones, cuts, and severed tendons in the right index finger, as well as cuts and a partially severed tendon to the right middle finger.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.

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