OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970004
SUPERIOR INSULATION
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated between chain and sprocket
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working his assigned task of emptying bags of insulating materia l into the hopper of the fiber changing insulation blowing machine. Employee #1 was stacking the bags as he emptied them in a pile along the side of the machine . The stack of bags started to tip over and one of the bags somehow became caugh t under the machine and on top of the chain that was being fed around the sprock et. Employee #1 dropped to the floor and reached back under the machine to retri eve the sack but caught the forefinger of his right hand between the chain and s procket. Employee #1's finger was amputated.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 61 Male
- Nature of injury
- Amputation (1)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Insulation Workers (593)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- CATCH POINT/PUNCTURE ACTION (2)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.