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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 110832.015 - Employee Fractures Fingertip Against Excavator Track And Req

**Accident: 110832.015 -- Report ID: 0355110 -- Event Date: 08/30/2018**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1358602.015	11/08/2018		W-L Construction & Paving Inc

At 8:23 a.m. on August 30, 2018, an employee was driving a pin into an excavator track with a sledge hammer when the handle broke and his right hand's ring fing er hit the track. The employee fractured his fingertip and lacerated the skin. Surgical amputation is scheduled for later as the full function of his finger d id not return. Hospitalization was not required.

Keywords: amputation, excavator, fingertip, fracture, laceration, struck against

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1358602.015	58	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Machinery maintenance occupations

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