OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #828780
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
DES MOINES, IA·
Event description
Employee's hand and arm amputated in molding machine
Investigation abstract
While Employee #1 was operating a plastic extruding and molding tile machine, a ulled into the former. Before Employee #1 could shut off the former, his hand an d arm were amputated. storm caused a power outage. Employee #1 called his supervisor on the phone to f ind out what he should do. His supervisor instructed him not to start up the mac hine if the power was out for more than a hour. The supervisor also told Employe e #1 not to run the former portion of the machine during start up. When the powe r was restored, Employee #1, apparently forgetting what his supervisor told him, left the former running while he cleaned the hot, semi-hard plastic from the he ad of the extruder, which was adjacent to the former. Employee #1's glove was ca ught on the hot plastic in the former's moving parts and his hand and arm were p
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 725
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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