OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #570119
FUJITEC AMERICA,INC.
LEBANON, OH·
Event description
Employee's fingertips amputated in unguarded metal shear
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had been assigned to cut sheet metal pieces on a notcher shear. Alth ough he had never run this machine before and had been shown how to run only thr ee parts, he took over operation. The shear had a point of operation barrier gua rd that had been removed. Two of Employee #1's fingertips were amputated in the unguarded point of operation.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 2
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