Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 138970.015 - Employee partially amputates two fingers in broach machine

Accident Summary Nr: 138970.015 -- Report ID: 0521100 -- Event Date: 05/04/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1531243.015	05/18/2021		331511	Waupaca Foundry, Inc.

Abstract: At 9:30 p.m. on May 4, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for an iron foundry was working in the mill room at the end of the second shift. The employee was leaning over and onto Broach #15 while cleaning flash off the working surface. Employees are required to clean flash out of the broaches on a daily basis if the broaches were needed for the work being performed. While leaning over the machine, the employee was depressing one of the two-hand control buttons without first deenergizing the machine. A coworker was working nearby cleaning debris off the floor. The coworker used the broach machine to standup and inadvertently hit the other two-hand control button as the employee was cleaning with his left hand. The broach actuated and struck the employee's left hand. The employee was hospitalized to treat amputations the his index finger above the first knuckle and ring finger above the second knuckle.

Keywords: Actuated, Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Cleaning, Energized, Engineering Controls, Finger, Flash, Foundry, Instantaneous amputation, Iron, Knuckle, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Cycled, Machine operator, Mill--Plant, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Point Of Operation, Shear, Sheared, Traumatic Amputation, Two-Hand Control

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1531243.015	22	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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