Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 130742.015 - Employee amputates fingertip when pulled into wire stripper

Accident Summary Nr: 130742.015 -- Report ID: 0524500 -- Event Date: 10/21/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1499933.015	10/28/2020		423930	Mervis Supply Co., Inc.

Abstract: At 1:00 p.m. on October 21, 2020, an employe working as a machine operator for a recyclable products supplier was feeding cables into a wire stripper. The employee claimed that the guard flipped up and the machine caught his glove pulling his left hand into the machine blade. The employee required medical treatment without hospitalization for a fracture to his middle finger and a laceration to his index finger. The laceration resulted in an amputation to the index fingertip approximately half-way into the nailbed.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Finger, Fingertip, Fracture, Glove, Guard, Inexperience, Instantaneous amputation, Laceration, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Malfunction, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Pulled In, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1499933.015	57	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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