OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14235550
STAVER FOUNDRY CO.
VIRGINIA, MN·
Event description
Employee's hand partially amputated in loader machinery
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a reclaim operator for approximately seven years, was working 4 to 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, operating a Clark Michigan tractor loader, model # CKL340, serial #CKL340G-069-914, manufactured between 1960 and 1964. Work in the reclaim room requires the loader operator to load sand into a mixer for the pro cess of reclaiming foundry sand. During operation, Employee #1's right hand was partially amputated when it became entrapped in an area of the equipment assumed to be between the cowl and inner guide bar assembly.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 779
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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