Accident Report Detail
Accident: 102897.015 - Employee Slips While Cleaning A Dust Collector And Amputates
Accident: 102897.015 -- Report ID: 0552652 -- Event Date: 10/17/2017 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1291248.015 | 02/07/2018 | Metal Technologies Inc Dba Three Rivers Gray Iron Inc | |||||
At 4:30 p.m. on October 17, 2017, an employee was poking clogged up dust with a piece of rebar through a small hatch way. The employee was standing on a wobbly ladder with one foot on the ladder and the other on a section of square tubing f ramework which was holding up a sack. The employee's foot slipped off the framew ork and his hand went through the hatchway and contacted a rotary valve inside t he dust collector. The employee's right finger tip was amputated. | |||||||
Keywords:
dust collector, housekeeping, ladder, slip, valve
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 1291248.015 | 32 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | Machinery maintenance occupations |