OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891903

ROTATING PARTS,FINGER,WORK RULES,CLEANING,LOCKOUT,LACERATION,STRUCK BY

1989-04-27T00:00:00

Event: ROTATING PARTS,FINGER,WORK RULES,CLEANING,LOCKOUT,LACERATION,STRUCK BY
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 891903
Report ID: 352430

Event description

Employee's finger cut in packing machine

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was cleaning a Boat packing machine #8 while it was in the OFF mode. She was reaching down into the elevator section of the machine when someone acc identally turned on the machine. The tucker located inside the elevator section began to rotate, cutting her left index finger.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 26 F

Nature of injury
7

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
4

Task assigned
1

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