Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 71,450Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221406234

DAS NORTH AMERICA, INC.

Event
Amputated, Amputation, Automobile, Caught In, Chain, Drag Chain Conveyor, Finger, Production Line, Sprocket
NAICS
336111
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345607469
Employer profile
DAS NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Summary number
221406234
Report ID
0418600

Event description

Employee amputates three fingers in chain drive

Investigation abstract

At 1:50 p.m. on October 27, 2021, an employee was working in a test booth that tests the noise quality of automobile seats. The conveyor line stopped moving and the employee looked through the test booth doors, leaned over and placed her hand on the chain and sprocket that drives the conveyor when the conveyor system began to moving again. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputation to her left index, middle and ring fingers.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 20 F

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    779

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