OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1001601

AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,AUGER,UNGUARDED

1986-02-27T00:00:00

Event: AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,STRUCK AGAINST,AUGER,UNGUARDED
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 1001601
Report ID: 751910

Event description

Employee's fingers amputated by auger

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was feeding rubber into an extruder. As she began to feed in a new p iece, four of her fingers came in contact with the auger at the bottom of the ho pper and were amputated. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 31 F

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
755

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
1

Task assigned
1

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