Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170153886 - Employee's wrist fractured by wrench

Accident Summary Nr: 170153886 -- Report ID: 0950641 -- Event Date: 07/03/1991
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111754941	07/19/1991	3599	0	Intrex

Abstract: At about 3:00 p.m. on July 3, 1991, Employee #1 was changing a tool on a numerical control vertical milling machine. The machine, under control of its program, had stopped to permit the tool change. When Employee #1 applied a wrench to a tool spindle, the 2,500 rpm spindle self-started. The wrench whipped around and fractured Employee #1's right wrist and inflicted a bleeding wound. In the hospital, a metal plate was surgically clamped onto the employee's fractured wrist.

Keywords: WRENCH, FRACTURE, ROTATING PARTS, MILLING MACHINE, SPINDLE, STRUCK BY, MECH MALFUNCTION, WRIST

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111754941			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Machinery maintenance occupations

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