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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #971390

AMPUTATED,FINGER,MOLDING MACHINE,ROTATING KNIFE,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CAUGHT BY,BLADE

Event
AMPUTATED,FINGER,MOLDING MACHINE,ROTATING KNIFE,WORK RULES,CLEANING,CAUGHT BY,BLADE
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
971390
Report ID
854910

Event description

Employee's fingers amputated by molding machine blade

Investigation abstract

At approximately 8:40 a.m. on September 19, 1989, Employee #1 turned off a moldi ng machine and raised the guard to vacuum excess sawdust off the working table. A wooden guard covering 2/3 of the cutter was still in place, but left approxima tely 2 inches of material width uncovered. The employee thought the machine had stopped and swept his hand across the table to sweep sawdust into the vacuum noz zle. The cutter blades were turning slowly (almost to a stop) and caught his fin gers, pulling them into the machine. The first three fingers of the employee's r ight hand were cut off at the second knuckle.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 20 M

    Nature of injury
    1
    Part of body
    10
    Event type
    2
    Source
    42
    Occupation code
    726
    Human factor
    9
    Environmental factor
    3
    Task assigned
    1

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