Brownsville, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: SA Recycling, Brownsville-Garza
Injury · Days away from work
At a glance
On , an injury at SA Recycling, Brownsville-Garza in 16200 Joe G Garza Sr Rd, Brownsville, TX 78521 resulted in days away from work. Employee was laborer in ship dismantling (except at floating drydocks and shipyards) merchant wholesalers.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- SA Recycling, Brownsville-Garza
- Parent company
- SA Recycling, LLC
- Street
- 16200 Joe G Garza Sr Rd
- City
- Brownsville
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 78521
- On-site location
- Metals Shear Section
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Days away from work (code 2)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days away from work
- 4
- Days restricted or transferred
- 61
Before the incident
EE was cutting a pipe using the alligator shear.
What happened
EE got his thumb pinched between the guarding of the alligator shear and the pipe he was attempting to cut.
Injury or illness
Fracture & Laceration of the left thumb.
Object or substance involved
Alligator Shear.
Summary line
Injury to left thumb from getting stuck between al alligator shear guard and pipe being cut. Diagnosis: Displaced fracture of distal phalanx of left thumb.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Laborer
- SOC code
- 53-7062: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- NAICS code
- 423930: Ship dismantling (except at floating drydocks and shipyards) merchant wholesalers
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 219
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 473,771
- EIN
- 743222369
- Establishment ID
- 1080723
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:30
- Time of incident
- 15:53
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-27
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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