OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221388051

WEABER, INC.

LEBANON, PA· 2021-08-27T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Catch Point, Clearing, Cutting, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Foot Control, Foot pedal, Foot-Powered Press, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Partial Amputation, Rotating Parts, Saw, Sawblade, Struck By, Traumatic Amputation, Wood Board
NAICS: 321918
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345510820
Employer profile: WEABER, INC.
Summary number: 221388051
Report ID: 0316700

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip while clearing running sawblade

Investigation abstract

At 9:15 a.m. on August 27, 2021, an employee was working as a woodworking machine operator for a millwork manufacturer. The employee was operating Cutter #2, a Precision Parts Connection inverted swing cut-off jump saw to cross-cut out sections of bad wood. While using his hand to clear a piece of wood, the employee hit the foot pedal actuating the saw. As a result, the employee struck his left hand with the rotating sawblade. The employee received medical treatment without hosptitalization for a severe laceration to his thumb and an amputated index fingertip.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 42 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
733

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.