OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221369192

PREMIER CASTING SERVICES, INC.

WATERLOO, IA· 2021-06-29T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Casting, Catch Point, Caught Between, Engineering Technician, Finger, Fingertip, Foundry, Inexperience, Instantaneous amputation, Iron, Laborer, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Material Handling, Metal, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Person, Pinch Point, Pinched, Shear, Sheared, Steel, Traumatic Amputation, Vat
NAICS: 331511
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345404511
Employer profile: PREMIER CASTING SERVICES, INC.
Summary number: 221369192
Report ID: 0751910

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip when caught between iron part a

Investigation abstract

At 10:40 a.m. on June 29, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for an iron foundry was moving an iron casting in a steel industrial tub. The part moved and caught the employee's finger between the part and the steel tub. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputated fingertip.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
889

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