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 #221420235

JSP INTERNATIONAL LLC

Event
Amputated, Amputation, Clearing, Fingertip, Hopper, Molding Machine, Reaching
NAICS
326150
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345689715
Employer profile
JSP INTERNATIONAL LLC
Summary number
221420235
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip after reaching into machine

Investigation abstract

At 2:50 a.m. on October 11, 2021, an employee was cleaning out the material hopper of a vertical injection mold machine. The employee was clearing plastic media from the pneumatic gate at the bottom of the hopper. The employee inserted his right thumb into the gate when the gate mechanism actuated. The tip of the employee's finger was sheared off, resulting in an amputation of the right thumb tip past the nail. The employee was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 27 M

    Event type
    2

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