Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 121813.015 - Employee partially amputates thumb when glove is pulled into

Accident Summary Nr: 121813.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 10/29/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1445049.015	11/19/2019		336360	Lear Corporation

Abstract: At 9:00 p.m. on October 29, 2019, an employee working for an automobile seating manufacturer was attempting to straighten rails on a seating frame due to a quality issue. The employee wanted to make an adjustment to the tooling in order to make the quick repair to the rails and thought using the disc sander would work. While trying to operate the sander, the employee caught her left hand glove on the tooling which pulled her thumb into the pinch point between the tool rest and the sander. The employee partially amputated her thumb, requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Caught In, Finger, Glove, Hand, Inexperience, Instantaneous amputation, Insufficient Supervision, Machine operator, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Pulled In, Sander, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1445049.015	44	F	Hospitalized injury		Quality Assurance Inspector

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