OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1001650
STAR-KIST INC. (CAN PLANT)
MUSCATINE, IA·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated while cleaning jammed machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a maintenance worker, went to clear a jam on a machine at the same time that an electrical control problem was being corrected at another location. As soon as the electrical problem was corrected, the machine started, amputatin g Employee #1's finger. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 503
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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