OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221394414

CAMBRIDGE PACKAGING INC.

CAMBRIDGE, OH· 2021-09-21T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Bandsaw, Cardboard, Caught By, Contact, Cutting, Engineering Controls, Finger, Hand, Inexperience, Instantaneous amputation, Laborer, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Packaging, Partial Amputation, Sawblade, Traumatic Amputation, Unsafe Position
NAICS: 561910
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345544068
Employer profile: CAMBRIDGE PACKAGING INC.
Summary number: 221394414
Report ID: 0522500

Event description

Employee partially amputates two fingers while operating ban

Investigation abstract

At 7:45 a.m. on September 21, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for a packaging service was cutting cores on a vertical bandsaw. As the employee was cutting the 3-inch sections of a 6-inch-diameter hollow cardboard core, he moved the material inward toward the blade. As he was cutting the 3-inch sections and was on the last section of the core, he had his fingers placed inside the core. The blade contacted two of his fingers as it cut the core. The employee partially amputated two fingers and was hospitalized.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
889

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