OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691949
HEINHOLD ENGINEERING & MACHINE CO INC
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated in point of operation
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was milling slots in a steel bar on a Cincinnati #4 plane milling ma chine. When he reached into the point of operation to examine a slot, his finger became caught by a cutter and was pulled in. A large portion of the finger was amputated. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 705
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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