OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #673715
AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,CLEANING,LOCKOUT,CLOGGED,STRUCK BY,POWER TAKE-OFF,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee's finger amputated by blower
Investigation abstract
After he loaded a truck, Employee #1 was cleaning up corn when the cleaning mach ine plugged. He shut off power take-off to the machine, removed the tube guard, and stuck his hand into the machine to clean it out. The machine was still coast ing to a stop, and his right index finger was struck by the blower and amputated .
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 805
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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