Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221403454

HONDA DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING OF AMERICA, LLC

Event
Assembling, Assembly Line, Caught In, Conveyor, Degloving, Face, Forehead, Nose, Roller Conveyor, Scalp, Scalped, Unguarded
NAICS
336390
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345590467
Employer profile
HONDA DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING OF AMERICA, LLC
Summary number
221403454
Report ID
0524700

Event description

Employee Suffers Scalp Loss and Forehead Degloving When Hair

Investigation abstract

At 9:45 a.m. on October 12, 2021, an employee working on a general assembly line rollers were not guarded. at a motor vehicle parts manufacturing facility. While the employee was inserting threaded bolts on a transmission, she dropped a "bolt starter" hand tool between the powered conveyor rollers that move the transmissions along the assembly line. When the employee leaned towards the line to assess if she could view where the tool landed and if she could retrieve it, her hair became caught on one of the rotating rollers. The employee's face was pulled towards the moving equipment, and she incurred a scalping and degloving injury from the hairline on her forehead down her nose, requiring hospitalization. The conveyor

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 54 F

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    785

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