Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 121606.015 - Employee's fingertip is amputated while troubleshooting mach

Accident Summary Nr: 121606.015 -- Report ID: 0317700 -- Event Date: 10/16/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1444317.015	11/13/2019		326150	Novipax Llc

Abstract: At 5:45 p.m. on October 16, 2019, an employee was working for a firm that made sanitary paper products. He was working on a shape pad machine. This machine had die cut and vacuum rollers. The employee was adjusting or troubleshoot the initial die (die #1) while feeding material through the in-feed roller on the shape pad machine. As the material going through the die #1, the tip of the employee's right index finger was caught in the in-going nip point of the roller. The tip of his right index finger was amputated. He was treated without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Die Cutting Press, Finger, Fingertip, Instantaneous amputation, Machine Guarding, Nip Point, Paper Cutter, Paper Machine, Power Trans Appar, Roller--Mach/Part, Traumatic Amputation, Troubleshooting

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1444317.015	50	M	Non Hospitalized injury

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