OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221428675

SELECT STAFF

BAPCHULE, AZ· 2021-12-29T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Belt, Catch Point, Caught Between, Caught In, Degloving, Drive Shaft, Finger, Fingertip, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Work Procedures, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine operator, Maintenance, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pinched, Pulled In, Pulley, Supervision, Temporary Employment Agency, Temporary Worker, Unstable Position
NAICS: 561320
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345732747
Employer profile: SELECT STAFF
Summary number: 221428675
Report ID: 0936400

Event description

Employee degloves finger, amputates tip in pulley drive belt

Investigation abstract

At 3:30 p.m. on December 29, 2021, an employee was assisting a coworker with manually rotating a drive belt/pulley system on the delinting centrifuge by pulley down on the belt. The employee's finger was pulled into the machine between the belt and pulley. The employee pulled his hand out resulting in a degloving of a portion of his left ring finger and possible amputation of the fingertip, requiring medical treatment without hospitalization.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 0 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
519

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.