OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221355878

UFP RANSON, LLC.

RANSON, WV· 2021-05-04T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Hand, Inexperience, Instantaneous amputation, Insufficient Supervision, Knife, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Molding Machine, Partial Amputation, Reaching In, Rotating Knife, Shear, Sheared, Struck By, Supervision, Traumatic Amputation, Wood
NAICS: 321114
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345307714
Employer profile: UFP RANSON, LLC.
Summary number: 221355878
Report ID: 0316400

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip when struck by machine blades

Investigation abstract

At 2:30 p.m. on May 4, 2021, an employee working for a company that manufactures and distributes of wood products was cleaning around a molder machine. The employee reached into the machine to remove a stick when his hand was struck by the rotating knives. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputated fingertip.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 M

Event type
14

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.