Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 139441.015 - Employee partially amputates two fingers while operating ban

Accident Summary Nr: 139441.015 -- Report ID: 0522500 -- Event Date: 09/21/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1554406.015	09/23/2021		561910	Cambridge Packaging Inc.

Abstract: At 7:45 a.m. on September 21, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for a packaging service was cutting cores on a vertical bandsaw. As the employee was cutting the 3-inch sections of a 6-inch-diameter hollow cardboard core, he moved the material inward toward the blade. As he was cutting the 3-inch sections and was on the last section of the core, he had his fingers placed inside the core. The blade contacted two of his fingers as it cut the core. The employee partially amputated two fingers and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Bandsaw, Cardboard, Caught By, Contact, Cutting, Engineering Controls, Finger, Hand, Inexperience, Instantaneous amputation, Laborer, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Packaging, Partial Amputation, Sawblade, Traumatic Amputation, Unsafe Position

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1554406.015	26	M	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction

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