OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #890657
FRACTURE,AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,LOCKOUT,LACERATION,NIP POINT,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee's fingers injured when caught in loom nip point
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was making a 25 in. wide wire mat on a positive motion loom. When op o prevent hands or fingers from entering a danger zone. erating this loom, he is required to change a bobbin each time the wire is exhau sted from the bobbin. When changing the bobbin, he uses a pair of hand-held wire cutters to cut the end of the wire that is woven into the mat. There are wire o penings on each side of the wire mat where the employee reaches in to cut the wi re. While his hand was in the opening, the machine started and his right hand wa s caught in a nip point, amputating half of his middle finger, and severely lace rating and fracturing his index finger in four places. The area of the nip point where the moveable part of the loom moves toward a fixed part was not guarded t
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 715
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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