OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14211551
MINITEC CORPORATION
LEONARDTOWN, MD—
Event description
EMPLOYEE'S FINGER AMPUTATED WHEN RING CATCHES ON MACHINE
Investigation abstract
An assembler working for Minitec Corporation was operating an automatic riveter machine, placing circuit breakers onto a conveyer belt feeding into the riveter. In doing so, one of the circuit breakers fell onto a steel mounting plate which houses a 115-volt drive motor with a 3.5 inch long shaft and two set-screws pro truding 0.25 inch from the shaft. When the employee reached to pick up the dropp ed circuit breaker, one of the set-screws caught the ring on her pinky finger, a nd amputated her finger. She was hospitalized for the amputation.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 F
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 83
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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