Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 137804.015 - Employee amputates two fingertips when caught in dock plate

Accident Summary Nr: 137804.015 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 07/29/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1545731.015	08/04/2021		561320	I Link Business Management

Abstract: At 3:30 p.m. on July 29, 2021, an employee was working as a laborer for a staffing agency that provides temporary employees to a logistics company. The employee worked as a general warehouse laborer and was assigned to by the site employer to work as a "Labeler". The employee was attempting to activate a manual flip type dock plate by pulling upward with his right hand while placing his left hand at the end of the dock plate where the flipped up end is located. As the pulled the dock plate upward with his right hand, he caught his left hand in the moving end of the plate. The employee was hospitalized to treat amputations to his middle and ring fingertips.

Keywords: Activated, Amputated, Amputation, Catch Point, Caught Between, Danger Zone, Dock Plate, Finger, Fingertip, Hand, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Instantaneous amputation, Laborer, Partial Amputation, Pulling, Staffing Agency, Temporary, Temporary Employment Agency, Temporary Worker, Training, Traumatic Amputation, Warehouse

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1545731.015	29	F	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction

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