OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14223986
CLOTHING,FINGER,LACERATION
Event description
EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HIS LEFT INDEX FINGER IN CUTTING MACHINE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was trimming cloth with a cutter machine round blade. He was using h is left hand index finger to press the cloth down when feeding the cloth into th e cutting blade. The blade nipped the end of his index finger tip. He evidently did not adjust the blade guard down to the thickness of the material. He did not lose the tip off his finger.
Victim
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 21
- Occupation code
- 777
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.