Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202656880 - Employee Amputates Fingertip on Router Machine

Accident Summary Nr: 202656880 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 08/27/2012
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
316667823	09/20/2012	2431	321911	Danmer Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 6:30 a.m. on August 27, 2012, Employee #1 and a coworker were cutting a 70 in. wood window shutter on the router. Employee #1 pressed down on the wood shutter near the cutting blade of a router as the coworker pushed the wood panel through the router table. As the panel was being cut, Employee #1's index fingertip contacted the router cutting blade and was amputated. He was taken to US Healthworks, where he was treated and released.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, FINGER, STRUCK AGAINST, WOOD PANEL, BLADE, MACHINE--MISC

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	316667823			Non Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Assemblers

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