Accident Report Detail

Accident: 102897.015 - Employee Slips While Cleaning A Dust Collector And Amputates

**Accident: 102897.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 10/17/2017**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1291248.015	02/07/2018		Metal Technologies Inc Dba Three Rivers Gray Iron Inc

At 4:30 p.m. on October 17, 2017, an employee was poking clogged up dust with a piece of rebar through a small hatch way. The employee was standing on a wobbly ladder with one foot on the ladder and the other on a section of square tubing f ramework which was holding up a sack. The employee's foot slipped off the framew ork and his hand went through the hatchway and contacted a rotary valve inside t he dust collector. The employee's right finger tip was amputated.

Keywords: dust collector, housekeeping, ladder, slip, valve

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1291248.015	32	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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