Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201159571 - Employee Amputates Thumb While Using Metal-Bending Machine

Accident Summary Nr: 201159571 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 06/14/2004
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
307453613	06/24/2004	2431	321911	Se-Gi Products Inc.

Abstract: At about 8:00 a.m. on June 14, 2004, Employee #1 was a regular employee of a company primarily engaged in manufacturing windows for busses. Employee #1 and a coworker were using a hydraulically actuated Clark and Lewis model number 200 tube-bending machine, with serial number 0562, to make frames for automotive sun roofs. Employee #1 asked his coworker to make an adjustment at the machine's control box that would change the angle of the bend made by the machine. As the coworker made that adjustment, Employee #1 stood next to him, but on the side of the machine into which material was fed. The coworker started the machine while Employee #1 was feeding material to the machine. Employee #1's left thumb got caught between the machine's extension block and its clamp follower block and was amputated. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, THUMB, BENDING MACHINE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	307453613			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Precision assemblers, metal

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