OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709709
CHAIN,MAINTENANCE,AMPUTATED,FINGER,GLOVE,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY,LOCKOUT,SPROCKET,NIP POINT
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated in chain and sprocket nip point
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working in the tank house on the #1 trimmer machine. Copper star ame caught by the chain and sprocket that was driving the feed roller. His finge rs were pulled into the nip points and three of them were amputated. ter sheets are fed into the machine, which squares them up. During the squaring up process, strips that are cut off the sides of the sheet drop down a chute int o the chopper, where they are chopped into small pieces and then dropped into a bin. Frequently, the strips become hung up in the chute and need to be either pu shed down through the chute or pulled back up out of the chute. A push stick is used to push the strips down; pulling the strips out is done by hand. Employee # 1 needed to pull some strips out of the chute. While the machine was running, he cleared the chute and was removing his hand from the machine when his glove bec
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 769
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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