OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #827113
DIE,AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,LOCKOUT,CAUGHT BETWEEN,NIP POINT,FORMING MACHINE,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee's finger amputated in nip point
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a Multivac packaging machine. When she finished the sh ift, she lifted the conveyor, which also acted as a guard while the machine was in operation, to cut the film. As she was holding the cut film, the machine inde xed and caught her finger between the dies of the vacuum forming section of the packaging machine. The distal aspect of her left ring finger was amputated.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 32 F
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 754
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 2
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