Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201141280 - Employees finger tips amputated in palletizer machine

Accident Summary Nr: 201141280 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 08/27/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
120243712	09/08/1999	3061	0	Perspec Engineered Plastics

Abstract: At approximately 11:00 a.m. on August 27, 1999, an employee was operating a palletizer machine. An unwanted large chunk of plastic material got fed into the palletizer, which knocked the guard off the in-running rollers. The employee tried to pull the plastic material out of the machine. His glove got caught in the rollers and his right hand was pulled in and the tips of three fingers on his right hand were amputated by the knives built into this machine. He was treated at the Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, California.

Keywords: FINGER, MACHINIST, CAUGHT BY, ROLLER CONVEYOR, NIP POINT, UNGUARDED

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	120243712			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Grinding, abrading, buffing & polishing mach. op's

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