OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #673772
CAMCAR TEXTRON SOCKET SCREW DIVISION
DECORAH, IA·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated by threading machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was setting up a threading machine. As he was adjusting the rail blo ck, it got stuck. When he put more pressure on it to make it move, his little fi nger slipped into one of the adjusting slots. His finger was amputated halfway u p the fingernail between the slot and the flat washer on the bolt.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 715
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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