OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14444616
HOOVER TREATED WOOD PRODUCTS, INC.
MILFORD, VA·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated when caught by stacker
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, an experienced maintenance foreman, was attempting to adjust the dr ive chain on a plywood stacker. The machine started up, catching and partially a mputating his finger between a sprocket and chain. Employee #1 had not locked ou t the stacker before beginning the job.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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