OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221409410

MARTINEZ & TUREK, INC.

RIALTO, CA· 2021-05-15T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Engineering Controls, Falling Object, Finger, Hand, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Machinist, Metal, Reaching, Shear, Sheared, Struck By, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 541330
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345467443
Employer profile: MARTINEZ & TUREK, INC.
Summary number: 221409410
Report ID: 0950633

Event description

Employee amputates finger grabbing at falling tracer unit

Investigation abstract

At 9:50 a.m. on May 15, 2021, an employee working as a machinist for an engineering service was placing a tracer unit on a tool post. The tracer unit was not aligned with the holes on the tool post. The employee attempted to rotate the tracer unit to align the holes by hand versus using the crane. As the employee unbolted the tracer unit, it started to slide off the post. The employee tried to stop it from falling when he cut his left ring finger on the shear point of the tracer unit and post. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputated finger.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 54 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
637

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