Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221442056

UNIVERSAL CONTAINER CORPORATION

Event
Amputation, Bandsaw, Blade, Finger, Reaching, Severed
NAICS
322211
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345812663
Employer profile
UNIVERSAL CONTAINER CORPORATION
Summary number
221442056
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Employee reaches over blade to straighten load, incurs finge

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 a.m. on January 15th, 2022, at a manufacturing company, Employee #1 was using a bandsaw. When Employee #1 reached across the blade to straighten the load, his finger was severed. The employee was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 49 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    727

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