OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221443153

Amputated,Amputation,Caught In,Crushed,Die,Distracted,Engineering Controls,Finger,Hand,Inexperience,Knuckle,Lack of Engineering Controls,Lack of Work Procedures,Machine Guarding,Machine operator,Material Handling,Misjudgment,Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation,Multi-employer Worksite,Multiemployer,Partial Amputation,Pinched,Point Of Operation,Staffing Agency,Temporary Employment Agency,Temporary Worker,Training

2021-12-05T00:00:00

Event: Amputated,Amputation,Caught In,Crushed,Die,Distracted,Engineering Controls,Finger,Hand,Inexperience,Knuckle,Lack of Engineering Controls,Lack of Work Procedures,Machine Guarding,Machine operator,Material Handling,Misjudgment,Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation,Multi-employer Worksite,Multiemployer,Partial Amputation,Pinched,Point Of Operation,Staffing Agency,Temporary Employment Agency,Temporary Worker,Training
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 221443153
Report ID: 0751910

Event description

Employee crushes finger in flare machine, later amputated

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 42 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
779

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.