OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221388036

ENGINES, INC.

HUNTINGTON, WV· 2021-08-27T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Crushed, Finger, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Machine operator, Manufacturing, Metal, Metal Bar, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Power Press, Press, Press Operator, Production Line, Pulling, Roller Conveyor, Roller--Mach/Part, Skin, Steel, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 336510
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345510929
Employer profile: ENGINES, INC.
Summary number: 221388036
Report ID: 0316400

Event description

Employee amputates finger pad when pulling steel bar from pr

Investigation abstract

At 8:15 a.m. on August 27,2021, an employee working for a railroad rolling stock manufacturer was straitening a flat bar in a gag press. The employee was pulling the 2-inch-thick by 6-inch-wide by 40-feet-long steel bar from the press when he caught his left-hand pinky between the bar and a non-motorized conveyor roller. The employee amputated the skin off his finger pad. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization at a local occupational health clinic.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 46 M

Event type
2

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