OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221380355

INDUSTRIAL TUBE & STEEL CORPORATION

WEST CHESTER, OH· 2021-06-15T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Bandsaw, Catch Point, Caught In, Contact, Cutting, Engineering Controls, Falling Object, Finger, Fingertip, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Metal, Metal Pipe, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Reaching, Saw, Sawblade, Struck By, Table Saw, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 331210
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345367320
Employer profile: INDUSTRIAL TUBE & STEEL CORPORATION
Summary number: 221380355
Report ID: 0522000

Event description

Employee partially amputates two fingers when struck by sawb

Investigation abstract

At 7:15 a.m. on June 15, 2021, an employee working for a metal pipe and tube manufacturer was utilizing a horizontal bandsaw to cut iron pipe. The employee had already cut a few pieces and had stacked them on the table attached to the saw. The employee saw a piece about to fall and so he reached out with his left hand to grab it. The employee struck the sawblade with his hand. The employee was hospitalized to treat partial amputations to his ring and middle fingers.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 58 M

Event type
2

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