OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221382088

GREAT DANE LLC

KEWANEE, IL· 2021-05-21T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Assembling, Catch Point, Caught Between, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Hand, Hand Tool, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Loading, Machine operator, Manufacturing, Metal, Partial Amputation, Steel Plate, Trailer, Traumatic Amputation, Welder, Wheel
NAICS: 336212
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345347744
Employer profile: GREAT DANE LLC
Summary number: 221382088
Report ID: 0524500

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip in jig during wheel assembly

Investigation abstract

At 5:15 p.m. on May 21, 2021, an employee working as a welder for a trailer manufacturer was working with a coworker assembling a 5th wheel extension. The employee was loading the side plates near the controls when he caught his left hand on the handle and activated the jig. The coworker was on the opposite end loading side plates when he heard the air and cylinders and pulled his hand out of the equipment. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputated middle fingertip.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 62 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
783

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