Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 92271.015 - Employee fractures and dislocates hand in label machine

Accident Summary Nr: 92271.015 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 01/13/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1203928.015	01/19/2017		322219	Omnicell, Inc.

Abstract: At 6:15 a.m. on January 13, 2017, an employee was rewinding the label on a label machine by using her right hand by jogging the machine forward and was using her left hand to load the paper on the paper winder. She had a glove on her left hand and while using her hand to guide the paper onto the cardboard core. In order, for the paper to start and wrap around the core the tip of her glove was caught causing her hand to wrap around the post and the cardboard core. When her hand wrapped around the post the employee sustained a left hand fracture and dislocated her fifth index compound fracture and a fourth index fracture.

Keywords: Caught In, Dislocated, Fracture, Hand, Machine Guarding

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1203928.015	57	F	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction

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