Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 121384.015 - Employee amputates fingertip in unguarded rivet squeezer

Accident Summary Nr: 121384.015 -- Report ID: 0355110 -- Event Date: 11/04/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1442620.015	11/04/2019		336212	Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co

Abstract: At 7:30 a.m. on November 4, 2019, an employee working as an Assembler for a utility trailer manufacturer was drilling holes in a trailer roof skin and placed rivets in the holes.The employee was using a hand held pneumatic tool referred to as a rivet squeezer to seat the rivets in place. A guard was missing from middle section of the tool exposing moving parts. The employee caught his right pinky finger between the moving parts. The employee amputated his fingetip between the bottom of the fingernail and the first joint and received medical treatment without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Assembling, Caught Between, Finger, Fingertip, Hand Tool, Installing, Instantaneous amputation, Machine Guarding, Partial Amputation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Pneumatic, Pneumatic tool , Safety Device, Trailer, Traumatic Amputation, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1442620.015	43	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Assemblers

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