OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221442288

KENDALL PATIENT RECOVERY U.S., LLC.

NORFOLK, NE· 2022-02-24T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Caught By, Drill, Drill Bit, Drill Operator, Entangled, Finger, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Machinist, Milling Machine, Rotating Drill Bit
NAICS: 339112
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345813885
Employer profile: KENDALL PATIENT RECOVERY U.S., LLC.
Summary number: 221442288
Report ID: 0728900

Event description

Milling machine operator's finger is caught by bit, amputate

Investigation abstract

At 7:30 p.m. on February 24, 2022, an employee was working for a firm that made The employee was hospitalized. surgical and medical instruments. He was working as a precision grinder, fitter, and tool sharpener. He was operating a milling machine. Wearing nitrile-coated gloves, he was drilling material. To prevent the material from vibrating, he was holding on it near the point of operation. The milling bit caught the glove on his left hand, and the glove became entangled with the bit. The employee pulled his hand free from the glove, and as he was doing so, he heard a pop. The ring finger on his left hand remained in the glove after the rest of his hand was pulled free. The left ring finger had been amputated from his hand by the bit.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
644

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.