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Accident Summary Nr: 116355.015 - Employee amputates fingertip while cutting metal pieces

Accident Summary Nr: 116355.015 -- Report ID: 0950635 -- Event Date: 02/25/2019
Inspection NrDate OpenedSICNAICSEstablishment Name
1381861.01502/28/2019423510George Jue Manufacturing Company Inc

Abstract: At 7:15 a.m. on February 25, 2019, an employee was operating a Messer MG Systems Torch Cutting Table cutting custom metal pieces. The torch cutter did not completely finish cutting a workpiece. The employee used a 3-Ton Black Bear Overhead Crane with a Walker Magnetics WBM-13PB Lifting Magnet attachment to hoist the workpiece from the table to a scrap bin. The employee used his hands while attempting to separate the partially cut piece from the main steel metal plate while still attached to the lifting magnet. While the employee continued to separate the workpiece from the plate, he caught his left ring finger on the workpiece causing him to amputate the fingertip. The employee received outpatient surgery at a local medical facility.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Crane, Crane Load, Cutting, Cutting And Burning, Finger, Fingertip, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Machine operator, Magnet, Malfunction, Partial Amputation, Plasma, Scrap Metal, Torch, Unstable Load

Employee Details
Employee # Inspection Nr Age Sex Degree of Injury Nature of Injury Occupation
1 1381861.015 53 M Non Hospitalized injury Machine operators, not specified

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