OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14453765
TONES BROTHERS INC.
DES MOINES, IA·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated by filter auger
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing an auger from a line filling funnel. He failed to lock the equipment in place, even though lockout was possible 1 ft away from the funn el. The equipment was run by a computer which sensed that the line run had not f inished. It started up and the auger amputated Employee #1's left index finger.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 756
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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