Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 124085.015 - Employee amputates finger while greasing running conveyor pu

Accident Summary Nr: 124085.015 -- Report ID: 1054113 -- Event Date: 01/22/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1463514.015	01/23/2020	2421	321113	317726774 - Coastal Fibre Inc

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on January 22, 2020, an employee was greasing a conveyor pulley while it was running. The employee reached out to brush sawdust off of a Zerk fitting when his finger was pulled into the pulley. The employee amputated of his index finger at the first knuckle with bone loss, requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Belt, Caught In, Cleaning, Conveyor, Energized, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fitting, Grease, Knuckle, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Partial Amputation, Pulled In, Pulley, Sawdust, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1463514.015	23	M	Hospitalized injury		Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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