Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 143017.015 - Employee amputates fingertip while servicing metal roller ma

Accident Summary Nr: 143017.015 -- Report ID: 0524500 -- Event Date: 12/29/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1574154.015	01/24/2022		332999	Titan Wheel Corporation Of Illinois

Abstract: At 8:30 a.m. on December 29, 2021, an employee and his coworker were replacing wear plates on a metal roller machine. The employee was on his knees using a prybar to lift a linkage arm so the coworker could hammer in the linkage pin. The prybar slipped off of the linkage arm and fell so the employee used the prybar again to lift the arm. The arm slipped off the prybar and struck the employee's left middle finger between a frame and the linkage arm and caused the linkage arm to fall onto his hand. The employee amputated his fingertip, requiring medical treatment without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Finger, Fingertip, Hand Tool, Inexperience, Installing, Knee, Metal Bar, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pinched, Pry Bar, Slip, Steel Plate, Unstable Load, Unstable Position

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1574154.015	60	M	Non Hospitalized injury

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