OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #971036
STANDARD PLUMBING SUPPLY
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee's four fingers amputated in chop saw
Investigation abstract
At 8:20 on June 16, 1988, Employee #1 lifted the guard to thread a new line of p ipe into a chop saw and actuated the saw, but, because the guard was left up, th e saw did not make a complete cut from the bottom of the pipe in an up stroke. T hinking he could push down on the top of the pipe to get a clean cut directly ov er the saw blade, Employee #1 placed his left hand under the guard and pushed hi s own hand into the saw, amputating four fingers. Employee #1 was rushed to the hospital with his fingers. Although he had been at this job for only one month, he had been trained.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 Male
- Nature of injury
- Amputation (1)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Machine operators, not specified (779)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- 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.