OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691097
BUTTERFIELD BUILDING SUPPLY
MIDVALE, UT·
Event description
AMPUTATED RIGHT HAND ON RADIAL ARM SAW
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIATELY 10 AM ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 5, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 AMPUTATED HIS RIGHT HAND WHILE MAKING A TEST CUT TO INSURE THAT THE RADIAL ARM SAW WAS PROPER LY SET UP TO PERFORM A JOB. EMPLOYEE #1 SUFFERS FROM EPILEPTIC SEIZURES, AND, IN FACT, HAD SUFFERED A SEIZURE EARLIER IN THE DAY. MANAGEMENT WAS AWARE OF HIS CO NDITION AND HAD FORBIDDEN EMPLOYEE #1 TO OPERATE ANY OF THE COMPANY'S SAWS. HE H AD HAD A SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN 1985 WHICH RESULTED IN A CUT TO THE INDEX FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS SETTING UP THE SAW, WHICH WAS TO BE OPERATED BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 56 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 727
- Human factor
- 7
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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