Inspection Detail

Inspection: 126133826 - Catalina Furniture Co. Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: Monrovia District Office

Inspection Nr: 126133826

Report ID: 0950644

Date Opened: 04/06/1998

Site Address:
Catalina Furniture Co. Inc.
16930 Valley View Ave.
La Mirada, CA 90638

Mailing Address:
, , 00000

Union Status: NonUnion

SIC:2511

NAICS: 0

Inspection Type: Accident

Scope: Partial

Advanced Notice: N

Ownership: Private

Safety/Health: Safety

Close Conference: 07/15/1998

Emphasis:

Case Closed: 07/17/1998

Related Activity
Type	Activity Nr	Safety	Health
Accident	362545618

Investigation Summary

Investigation Nr: 201791324

Event: 04/03/1998

EMPLOYEE SUFFERS AMPUTATION OF FINGER

Around 5:15 p.m. on April 3, 1998, Employee #1 was working on an Onsrud Inc. inverted router, U-052, M-305, Model 3025 (Serial Number 30272). He was routing a headboard for a bed. Before he routed the headboard he was trying to adjust the height of the router blade. He was using a piece of wood (2 in. by 3.5 in. by 38 in.) to check the measurements. As he started at the end of piece of wood, the router blade pulled the piece of wood and his left hand hit the blade and resulted amputation of his left middle finger and the removal of the nail on his ring finger. He was hospitalized for about two hours. After investigation, it was found that the employee was trained properly to use the machine. The employee did not use the proper procedure to adjust the height of the router blade and tried a piece of wood instead of using a jig.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, NAIL, WOOD SLAB, MEASURING DEVICE, FINGER, BLADE

Investigated Inspection
#	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	126133826			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators

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