OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221433923

RUSKIN COMPANY

MIRA LOMA, CA· 2021-08-23T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Couplings, Crushed, Die, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Hydraulic, Hydraulic Equipment, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Cycled, Machine operator, Maintenance, Partial Amputation, Struck By, Traumatic Amputation, Unsafe Position
NAICS: 332322
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345680086
Employer profile: RUSKIN COMPANY
Summary number: 221433923
Report ID: 0950633

Event description

Employee amputates finger, fingertip when struck by hydrauli

Investigation abstract

At 1:20 p.m. on August 23, 2021, an employee working as a machinery maintenance middle fingertip. technician was performing an adjustment on the cutoff die of a CD35 full blade roll former. The employee did not implement lockout tagout procedures. The employee removed the dies that hold the hydraulic cylinder to the die and loosened the coupler attempting to free it to travel down to the die. At this point, the employee was holding the coupler in his right hand while it was above the die. The hydraulic die fired and cycled down onto the employee's hand. The employee crushed his index and middle fingers between the coupler bottom and the die. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputation to index finger and

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
519

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