Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 138654.015 - Employee partially amputates thumb in separator rollers

Accident Summary Nr: 138654.015 -- Report ID: 0214500 -- Event Date: 08/27/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1550373.015	08/31/2021		326111	Beta Plastics Corporation

Abstract: At 6:00 p.m. on August 27, 2021, an employee working for a plastics manufacturer was restarting a separator following a power outage from a storm. The employee caught his left thumb in the rollers. The employee was hospitalized to treat a partially amputated thumb, which was reattached at the hospital during surgery.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Catch Point, Caught Between, Caught In, Engineering Controls, Finger, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Partial Amputation, Plastic Mfg, Power Roller, Roller--Mach/Part, Started, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1550373.015	32	M	Hospitalized injury

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