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Accident Summary Nr: 96909.015 - Employee's fingertip is amputated when a steel work piece fe

Accident Summary Nr: 96909.015 -- Report ID: 0523900 -- Event Date: 05/31/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1239445.015	06/13/2017		332313	Stellar Mold & Tool, Inc.

Abstract: At 8:50 a.m. on May 31, 2017, an employee was lifting a metal work-piece out of the EDM with a manual magnetic lifting device. The employee's finger was crush between a metal work-piece and a material cart when the work-piece unexpectedly fell off the manual magnetic lifting device. The injured worker had lifted the work-piece out of an EDM machine and was manually wiping the bottom side of the work-piece with a rag to remove debris/cuttings before setting the work-piece on a material cart. The employee sustained a crushing injury which resulted in surgical amputation of the right middle fingertip.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Crushing, Falling Object, Finger, Struck By, Suspended Load

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1239445.015	45	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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