Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 95442.015 - Employee's finger is amputated by sprocket on power transmis

Accident Summary Nr: 95442.015 -- Report ID: 0625400 -- Event Date: 04/27/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1230600.015	05/01/2017		322211	Danhil Containers, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 3:45 p.m. on April 27, 2017, an employee was adjusting the glue head on large cardboard box gluer. The employee's hand slipped off of a broken tool used to make adjustment. The employee lost balance, attempted to catch himself and placed his hand in an exposed power transmission chain and sprocket which had not been locked and tagged out. The employee suffered amputation of right hand index, middle and ring finger to second knuckle and right hand pinky amputated to mid finger nail. The employee was not hospitalized.

Keywords: Amputation, Chain, Finger, Lockout/Tagout, Lost Balance, Machine Guarding, Sprocket

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1230600.015	21	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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