OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221393432

ALABAMA METAL INDUSTRIES CORPORATION

BIRMINGHAM, AL· 2021-09-02T00:00:00

Event: Abrasion, Amputated, Amputation, Caught By, Contusion, Crushed, Feeding, Finger, Fracture, Glove, Hand, Knuckle, Laceration, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Manufacturing, Material Handling, Metal, Metal Sheet, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Partial Amputation, Power Roller, Production Line, Pulled In, Roller--Mach/Part, Surgical Amputation
NAICS: 331110
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345540025
Employer profile: ALABAMA METAL INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
Summary number: 221393432
Report ID: 0418300

Event description

Employee crushes three fingers in rollers, two are later amp

Investigation abstract

At 10:00 a.m. on September 2, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for a metals manufacturer was working at the Expanded Metal Process Line. The employee was feeding expanded 4-foot by 8-foot metal sheets through a leveler. The employee was wearing black coated cloth gloves when his left-hand glove caught in the 1/2-inch expanded metal opening just as the leveler rollers caught a metal sheet. The employee was hospitalized to treat denuded index and middle fingers and a dibridged ring finger, requiring bedside amputations of the index finger to the proximal joint and the middle finger to the middle joint.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 50 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
779

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