Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 143750.015 - Employee amputates thumb in rotating rewind machine pin

Accident Summary Nr: 143750.015 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 08/20/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1558343.015	10/15/2021		323111	K-1 Packaging Group

Abstract: At 1:15 p.m. on August 20, 2021, an employee working for a commercial printer was operating a rewind machine. The employee reached her right hand into the machine to remove a pin extending from a cylinder holding stock material. The machine activated and caught her thumb in the finger ring on top of the pin. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputated thumb.

Keywords: Activated, Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Engineering Controls, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Pin, Printer, Printing, Reaching In, Rotating Parts, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1558343.015	67	F	Hospitalized injury

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