Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 130398.015 - Employee partially amputates finger on truing device

Accident Summary Nr: 130398.015 -- Report ID: 0524700 -- Event Date: 10/12/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1497735.015	10/15/2020		331221	Precision Strip, Inc.

Abstract: At 11:15 a.m. on October 23, 2020, an employee working as a machine operator for a rolled steel manufacturer was setting up a Diamond Truing Device. The employee was manually adjusting the truing diamond in order to clean a grinding wheel on a Cincinnati OD Knife Machine. The employee moved the device horizontally until it touched the rotating grinding wheel. The manual adjustment knob for truing diamond is located within 4 inches of the grinding wheel. The grinder operates at 2767 revolutions per minute (RPM). While performing this task, the truing device rotated to the vertical position and crushed the employee's right middle finger between the lever used to alight the grinding wheel and the guard to the grinding wheel. The employee partially amputated his finger between first and second knuckle and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Adjust, Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Finger, Grinder, Grinding, Grinding Wheel, Instantaneous amputation, Knife, Knuckle, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Partial Amputation, Rotating Knife, Rotating Parts, Steel, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1497735.015	45	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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