Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 110494.015 - Employee amputates fingertip while clearing jam from machine

Accident Summary Nr: 110494.015 -- Report ID: 0729300 -- Event Date: 10/21/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1356659.015	10/26/2018		326113	Air Manufacturing Innovation

Abstract: At 12:15 p.m. on October 21, 2018, an employee was cleaning out some bridge material from a support hopper and opened the bottom portion of the hopper to insert a tool to free up a jam. The employee caught his right hand's middle finger with the slide gate as he pulled his hand from the hopper and amputated his fingertip The employee was hospitalized.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught By, Caught In, Cleaning, Fingertip, Hopper, Jammed

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1356659.015	27	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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