Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201791324 - EMPLOYEE SUFFERS AMPUTATION OF FINGER

Accident Summary Nr: 201791324 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 04/03/1998
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126133826	04/06/1998	2511	0	Catalina Furniture Co. Inc.

Abstract: Around 5:15 p.m. on April 3, 1998, Employee #1 was working on an Onsrud Inc. inverted router, U-052, M-305, Model 3025 (Serial Number 30272). He was routing a headboard for a bed. Before he routed the headboard he was trying to adjust the height of the router blade. He was using a piece of wood (2 in. by 3.5 in. by 38 in.) to check the measurements. As he started at the end of piece of wood, the router blade pulled the piece of wood and his left hand hit the blade and resulted amputation of his left middle finger and the removal of the nail on his ring finger. He was hospitalized for about two hours. After investigation, it was found that the employee was trained properly to use the machine. The employee did not use the proper procedure to adjust the height of the router blade and tried a piece of wood instead of using a jig.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, NAIL, WOOD SLAB, MEASURING DEVICE, FINGER, BLADE

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	126133826			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators

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