OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221393903

ACE IRON & METAL COMPANY

COLUMBUS, OH· 2021-09-13T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Cutting, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Glove, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Laborer, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Metal, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pipe, Pulled In, Safety Device, Shear, Sheared, Shearing Machine, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation, Unsafe Position, Waste Proc Fac
NAICS: 423930
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345532063
Employer profile: ACE IRON & METAL COMPANY
Summary number: 221393903
Report ID: 0522500

Event description

Employee partially amputates thumb when caught in alligator

Investigation abstract

At 12:20 p.m. on September 13, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for a recyclable materials supplier was operating a Gensco Model DTX200 Alligator Shear. The employee was cutting soldered joints and fittings off small copper pipe and tubing from a scrapped HVAC system. As the employee was cutting the tubing, he caught his left-hand glove which was pulled into the point of operation. The employee partially amputated his thumb in the shear. The employee was hospitalized where he underwent surgery to have the thumb section reattached.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 39 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
889

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