Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 118933.015 - Employee's fingertips are amputated in napkin machine

Accident Summary Nr: 118933.015 -- Report ID: 0953210 -- Event Date: 07/06/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1415443.015	07/15/2019		322299	Paterson Pacific Parchment Company

Abstract: At 2:30 a.m. on July 6, 2019, an employee was webbing paper into a napkin machine when he reached over an interlocked guard to feed paper into the machine. The employee was with holding the paper with his right hand while jogging the machine with his left hand when his fingers were pinched between two rollers. The employee suffered amputations of the fingertips of his right middle and ring fingers and was treated without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Bypass Guard, Caught In, Fingertip, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Nip Point, Paper Machine, Pinched, Reaching, Roller--Mach/Part

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1415443.015	57	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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