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Accident: 200529931 - Employee Amputates Finger In Drill Press

**Accident: 200529931 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 08/15/2005**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
308260876	08/24/2005	3469	Olsen Engineering, L.P.

On August 15, 2005, Employee #1 was operating a multispindle drill press in its semiautomatic mode. He was brushing some metal shavings away from the drill with his gloved hand when his hand became caught in one of the rotating drills. The middle finger on his left hand was crushed and partially severed. He was not hospitalized, but his finger was surgically amputated. No guarding was in place for the rotating parts.

Keywords: rotating parts, amputated, finger, glove, caught by, drill press, hand, unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	308260876			Non Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Drilling and boring machine operators

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