OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709642
DIE,FRACTURE,FINGER,POINT OF OPERATION,THERMOFORMER,MACHINE--MISC
Event description
Employee's finger fractured in thermoformer
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 inadvertently reached into the die of a plastic thermoform machine w hile trying to correct a product feed problem between two automatic forming and cutting machines. His ring finger was fractured.
Victims (2)
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 719
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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