OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #673749
DUBUQUE SASH AND DOOR MANUFACTURING
DUBUQUE, IA·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated by wood jointer
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was pushing a board through a wood jointer. As he was putting pressu re on the board, his finger slipped into the knives of the jointer. His left rin g finger was amputated below the first joint and his left little finger was cut, but not amputated. The machine was fully guarded at the time. Employee #1 had p reviously amputated the tips of the other two fingers on that hand. He believed the lack of these fingertips caused the accident because he was forced to hold t he board in an awkward position.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 733
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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