OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14299614

ABLE TREE AND CRANE SERVICE

ELLICOTT CITY, MD— 1985-05-28T00:00:00

Event: CLOTHING, AMPUTATED, WORK RULES, CAUGHT BY, THUMB, LOCKOUT, CHIPPER
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #14829139
Employer profile: ABLE TREE AND CRANE SERVICE
Summary number: 14299614
Report ID: 352440

Event description

Employee's thumb amputated in chipper

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was operating a chipper when his eyeglasses dropped behind the rotor . He was wearing heavy duty gloves, and when he reached behind the machine to pi ck up the glasses his left thumb was caught by the in-running pulley and amputat ed. The machine is a Vermeer 1600 chipper, tag #08491.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
43

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
1

Task assigned
1

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