Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221429392

HEPA CORPORATION

Event
Carpenter, Electric Saw, Laceration, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Saw, Sawblade, Table Saw, Thumb
NAICS
333318
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#345588560
Employer profile
HEPA CORPORATION
Summary number
221429392
Report ID
0950631

Event description

Employee Lacerates Thumb While Adjusting Table Saw

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 a.m. on October 12, 2021, an employee was changing blades and making adjustments on a PowerMatic, Model Number 66, Serial Number 91661419 table saw in a wood shop area of an air filter manufacturing facility. The employee was changing the blades from an aluminum cutting blade to one for Masonite engineered wood. When the employee started adjusting the fence of the table saw, he accidentally contacted the running blade and suffered a laceration to the thumb of his left hand. The employee required medical treatment but was not hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 63 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    364

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