OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221391097

ARIEL CORPORATION

MOUNT VERNON, OH· 2021-09-01T00:00:00

Event: Catch Point, Caught In, Cloth, Compressor, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fracture, Hand, Insufficient Supervision, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Lathe, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Machinist, Manufacturing, Metal Lathe, Pin, Polishing, Pulled In, Rotating Parts, Rotating Shaft, Unsafe Position
NAICS: 333912
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345529085
Employer profile: ARIEL CORPORATION
Summary number: 221391097
Report ID: 0522500

Event description

Employee fractures fingers, lacerates hand in rotating lathe

Investigation abstract

At 8:10 a.m. on September 1, 2021, an employee working as a machinist for an air and gas compressor manufacturer was operating a Monarch 13-inch lathe to polish a small round shot pin. The employee clamped the part in the collet of the lathe and began polishing the rotating part with a strip of emery cloth. As the employee moved the strip toward the exposed end of the part, which had a sharp cut out, the cloth caught and pulled the employee's right hand into the rotating part. The lathe was operating at approximately 450 RPM. The employee was hospitalized to treat multiple finger fractures and a laceration across the palm.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 33 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
637

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