Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221440316

EATON CORPORATION

Event
Amputated, Amputation, Electrical Testing, Fingertip, Test Equipment
NAICS
336390
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345802029
Employer profile
EATON CORPORATION
Summary number
221440316
Report ID
0728900

Event description

Employee amputates pinky fingertip on eddy current machine

Investigation abstract

At 8:30 p.m. on February 15, 2022, an employee was retrieving valves that fell below the carriage of a Sonic eddy current machine. While pulling the valves out, the carriage amputated his left pinky fingertip. The employee was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 56 M

    Event type
    2

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