OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #827030
AMPUTATED,SHEAR,WORK RULES,THUMB,HAND TOOL,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee's thumb amputated in shears
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using Banam shears to cut the heads off bolts to acquire threade hear which had been removed at the time of the accident. Nevertheless, even when the guarding on the shear had been replaced it was still not adequate for the j ob. d parts; 300 to 400 hundred are cut approximately every six minutes. Employee #1 was using a 1/2 in. outside diameter pipe as a tool with stops for length and i nsertion into shears. Instead of removing the tool with the remainder of the bol t still inside and placing a new bolt into the pipe, he reached into the shear, removed the remainder, and placed the bolt that was to be cut into the pipe by h and. The shear operated and his thumb was amputated at the first knuckle. Employ ee #1 said that the shear tripped by itself, but had never done so before. The s hear has a covered foot pedal. There had been a mesh guard on the front of the s
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 2
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