OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823658
MAINTENANCE,FINGER,WORK RULES,JAMMED,LOCKOUT,LACERATION,MANDREL,STRUCK BY
Event description
Employee's finger crushed by machine mandrel
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:50 p.m. on April 18, 1989, Employee #1, of Stone Industrial, was operating a disc and roll machine when the machine became jammed with severa l tubes. While the machine was still operating, she stuck her right index finger into the machine to unjam it. Her finger struck against the machine mandrel and split open. The night shift supervisor instructed two coworkers to take Employe e #1 to Medserv, Greenbelt, MD, where she received 17 stitches.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 F
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 717
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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