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Accident Summary Nr: 201141017 - Employee's fingers amputated after plastics plant injury

Accident Summary Nr: 201141017 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 04/29/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
120245964	05/18/1999	3999	0	A & M Plastics

Abstract: At about 7:30 a.m. on April 29, 1999, Employee #1 was operating a densifier machine as his normally assigned task. While he was feeding long strips of plastic sheet material into this machine, his left hand got wrapped into the spinning plastic material and the machine started to pull his hand inwards. When he was able to pull his hand away, it had suffered severe degloving injury to his middle and ring fingers, which later had to be amputated. He was treated at UCI Medical Center for two days, followed by continued treatment as an outpatient.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, FINGER, PLASTIC MFG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	120245964			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Misc. metal,plastic,stone&glass-working mach. op's

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