Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202465019 - Employee Amputates Fingers in Chain and Sprocket Drive

Accident Summary Nr: 202465019 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 08/01/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310199021	10/09/2007	1382	541360	Buena Geotechnical Services Llc

Abstract: On August 1, 2007, the owner of the company was fixing an automatic hammer inside the back office area used for soil compaction. The owner stated that he had disconnected the machine at the wall outlet and left the office. Employee #1, a field soils technician for Buena Geotechnical Services, stated that he took it upon himself to try to fix the machine. Employee #1 remembers plugging the machine back in, but cannot remember how he nearly got his fingers amputated. Employee #1 suffered partial amputations of several fingers, when his hand got caught between the chain and sprocket drive of the machine. He was hospitalized.

Keywords: CHAIN, AMPUTATED, FINGER, CAUGHT BETWEEN, SPROCKET, HAND

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	310199021			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Geologists and geodesists

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