Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170198675 - Employee's hand injured in cotton gin machine

Accident Summary Nr: 170198675 -- Report ID: 0950625 -- Event Date: 11/10/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111939344	01/28/1991	0723	0	Producers Cotton Oil

Abstract: Employee #1 and a coworker, the gin foreman, were waiting to clear a plugged lint cleaner on a cotton gin. The foreman removed the bolts and then knelt at the corner of the cleaner to check if the machinery had stopped moving. Employee #1 came up behind him and reached in with both hands to gather up a plug of cotton. The little finger of his glove became snagged in the cotton machine, and his hand was injured.

Keywords: CLOTHING, GLOVE, WORK RULES, CAUGHT BY, CLOGGED, COTTON GIN, HAND

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111939344			Non Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Laborers, except construction

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