OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1000835
STONECUTTER MILLS CORPORATION
SPINDALE, NC·
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated after being crushed in mangle
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a textile mangle when he attempted to straighten out t he selvage of a piece of cloth. He lost his balance and grabbed the moving cloth , which pulled his right hand and fingers into the moving rubber coated rollers of the mangle. All four fingers on Employee #1's right hand were crushed and lat er had to be surgically amputated.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 749
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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