OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #673756
REPAIR,FINGER,STUCK,CAUGHT BETWEEN,LACERATION,SKIN
Event description
Employee's finger injured when pinched between machine parts
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was helping replace the motor in a wood molder. The motor was stuck in the motor frame. He was wiggling the motor back and forth when it came loose and slid forward, pinching his finger between the motor and the frame of the mac hinery. His fingertip was cut and the skin covering the fatty tissue on the end of the finger was partially removed.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 547
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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