OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221437502

K-1 PACKAGING GROUP

POMONA, CA· 2021-08-20T00:00:00

Event: Activated, Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Engineering Controls, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Pin, Printer, Printing, Reaching In, Rotating Parts, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 323111
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345583439
Employer profile: K-1 PACKAGING GROUP
Summary number: 221437502
Report ID: 0950644

Event description

Employee amputates thumb in rotating rewind machine pin

Investigation abstract

At 1:15 p.m. on August 20, 2021, an employee working for a commercial printer was operating a rewind machine. The employee reached her right hand into the machine to remove a pin extending from a cylinder holding stock material. The machine activated and caught her thumb in the finger ring on top of the pin. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputated thumb.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 67 F

Event type
2

Occupation code
0

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