OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #829960
IOWA NATURAL CASING INC.
SIOUX CITY, IA·
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated in casing machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was picking up pieces from the floor when he slipped. When he tried to catch himself, his left hand entered a casing crushing machine, amputating hi s middle finger to the middle knuckle and the fingertips of his other three fing ers.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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