OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1002203
ROTATING PARTS,AMPUTATED,PPE,FINGER,GLOVE,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY
Event description
Employee's finger amputated by tapper
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a machine while wearing cotton gloves. When that machi locked in position to be tapped. ne broke down, the department supervisor told him to finish out the remaining on e-half hour of his day on the tapper and gave him a pair of PVC gloves. Employee #1 said he knew that PVC gloves were required for operating this machine, but h e wasn't sure why he didn't change his gloves. The tapper can be pushed back 27 in. from the jig that holds the part to be tapped, but Employee #1 said that it was pushed back less than 12 in. The employee was apparently placing the part in the jig when the rotating tapper caught his cotton glove and amputated his righ t little finger. The department supervisor indicated that the part had not been
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 637
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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