OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221440944
BIRCH HOLDINGS OF PA
NEW HOLLAND, PA·
Event description
Employee cuts and fractures fingertips on disc sander
Investigation abstract
At 2:45 p.m. on February 144, 2022, an employee was using a bench-top Delta disc sander to deburr a small piece of aluminum for a jig. The employee was holding the work piece in line with the direction of the sanding disc rotation when rotating disc grabbed the work piece and pressed his fingertips against the sanding disc. The employee suffered left index and middle fingertip skin abrasions and distal bone fractures and was treated without hospitalization.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 62 M
- Event type
- 7
- Occupation code
- 796
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