OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221403173

TRIM-LOK, INC.

BUENA PARK, CA· 2021-05-28T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Blade, Catch Point, Caught In, Cutter, Cutting, Engineering Controls, Finger, Foot Control, Foot pedal, Guillotine Shear, Hand, Inexperience, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Point Of Operation, Rubber, Seal, Staffing Agency, Temporary, Temporary Employment Agency, Temporary Worker, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 333993
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345378947
Employer profile: TRIM-LOK, INC.
Summary number: 221403173
Report ID: 0950631

Event description

Employee amputates finger in poorly guarded guillotine sheer

Investigation abstract

At 1:06 p.m. on May 28, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for a were no witnesses to the accident. The guard was inadequate allowing the employee to place her finger in the point of operation. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputated left index finger. manufacturer of plastic or rubber seals and trims was cutting product for shipment. The employee worked for a temporary staffing agency and was assigned to the plant. The employee was assigned to a guillotine cutter station cutting rubber trim to short pieces. The process required the employee to depress the foot pedal and then release it in order for the blade to drop down to cut the piece before returning to its home position on top. The employee fed the material into the cutter at which point it came down on both the material and her finger. There were coworkers including lead employees in the area, but there

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 53 F

Event type
2

Occupation code
779

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