OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970004
CHAIN,AMPUTATED,FINGER,CONSTRUCTION,CAUGHT BETWEEN,SPROCKET,HOPPER
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 593
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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