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Inspection Information - Office: Ca Santa Ana District Office | ||||
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| Nr: 309298073 | Report ID: 0950631 | Open Date: 05/24/2007 | ||
| Jba Aslan Companies Inc | ||||
| 41 Post Irvine, CA 92618 | Union Status: NonUnion | |||
| SIC: 8711/Engineering Services | ||||
| NAICS: 541330/Engineering Services | ||||
| Mailing: 41 Post, Irvine, CA 92620 | ||||
| Inspection Type: | Accident | |||
| Scope: | Partial | Advanced Notice: | N | |
| Ownership: | Private | |||
| Safety/Health: | Safety | Close Conference: | 08/15/2007 | |
| Planning Guide: | Safety-Manufacturing | Close Case: | 11/17/2008 | |
| Related Activity: | Type | ID | Safety | Health |
| Accident | 102519576 | |||
Violation Summary | ||||||
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| Serious | Willful | Repeat | Other | Unclass | Total | |
| Initial Violations | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Current Violations | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Initial Penalty | $0 | $0 | $0 | $5,500 | $0 | $5,500 |
| Current Penalty | $0 | $0 | $0 | $600 | $0 | $600 |
| FTA Amount | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Violation Items | |||||||||||
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| # | ID | Type | Standard | Issuance | Abate | Curr$ | Init$ | Fta$ | Contest | LastEvent | |
| 1. | 01001 | Other | 342 A | 08/17/2007 | 08/22/2007 | $350 | $5,000 | $0 | 08/31/2007 | F - Formal Settlement | |
| 2. | 01002 | Other | 3203 A | 08/17/2007 | 09/09/2007 | $250 | $500 | $0 | 08/31/2007 | F - Formal Settlement | |
Accident Investigation Summary | ||||||
| Summary Nr: 201148863 | Event: 03/10/2007 | Employee Amputates Fingers While Operating Punch Machine | ||||
| On March 10, 2007, Employee #1 was operating a SteelCrete punch machine, which was a customized hydro-electric machine manufactured by Charles Meisner Company. This machine was used for forming J-shaped hooks on the sides of 6-in.-wide galvanized steel studs used in the commercial and residential construction. The machine bed was 8 ft long and had 16 sets of dies which closed horizontally around the 6-in.-wide stock positioned along the length of the 8-ft long machine bed. Operation of this machine was controlled via a two-hand trip control. The J-hooks were formed in two steps; in each stepc the machine worked on a 4-ft segment of the steel stud. The stock was manually fed horizontally into the machine. The first 4-ft segment of the stock would be placed into the machine and the two-hand trip control would be activated to complete the first step. Then the stock would be moved forward into the machine to align the first 4-ft segment of the stock into the second stage of the machine and the second 4-ft segment of the stock would be aligned into the first stage of the machine. Then the two-hand trip control would be activated again to accomplish the second step in the formation of the J-hooks for the first 4-ft segment and first formation step for the second 4-ft segment of the stock and so on. At the time of this accident, Employee #1 and a coworker were working together. Employee #1 would position the stock inside the punch dies and then he would take his hands out of the dies and ask the coworker to go ahead to operate the two-hand trip control. Due to a miscommunication between the two of them, the coworker activated the machine while Employee #1 still had his hands inside the punch dies. Employee #1 sustained the amputation of approximately 1 in. on both of his index fingers. These amputated tips were reattached in the hospital. Employee #1 also lost approximately 1 in. of his left middle finger and approximately 0.5 in. of his left ring finger, and his right middle fingertip bone was also chipped. Employee #1 was treated in the emergency room and was not hospitalized. | ||||||
| Keywords: amputated, hand control, finger, punch press, inattention | ||||||
| Inspection | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |||
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| 1 | 309298073 | Non Hospitalized injury | Amputation | Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c. | ||