105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221398829

Amputated,Amputation,Caught In,Cutting,Engineering Controls,Finger,Hand,Instantaneous amputation,Laborer,Lack of Engineering Controls,Lack of Work Procedures,Machine Guarding,Machine operator,Manufacturing,Misjudgment,Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation,Partial Amputation,Production Line,Reaching In,Rotating Parts,Saw,Sawblade,Struck By,Traumatic Amputation,Wood

Event
Amputated,Amputation,Caught In,Cutting,Engineering Controls,Finger,Hand,Instantaneous amputation,Laborer,Lack of Engineering Controls,Lack of Work Procedures,Machine Guarding,Machine operator,Manufacturing,Misjudgment,Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation,Partial Amputation,Production Line,Reaching In,Rotating Parts,Saw,Sawblade,Struck By,Traumatic Amputation,Wood
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
221398829
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Employee cutting wood amputates finger when struck by sawbla

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 45 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    889

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