OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #824938

KNIFE,AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,CLEANING,LOCKOUT,INATTENTION,MACHINE--MISC

1987-11-19T00:00:00

Event: KNIFE,AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,CLEANING,LOCKOUT,INATTENTION,MACHINE--MISC
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 824938
Report ID: 352420

Event description

Employee's fingertip amputated by dough chute knife

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was cleaning a dough chute that was equipped with a pneumatically op erated cutting knife. When he reached into the chute, the knife came down and am putated his right index fingertip. Employee #1 had failed to turn off the power to the line before cleaning it.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 51 M

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
769

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
3

Task assigned
1

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