OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14377048
MIDAS INTERNATIONAL CORP
BEDFORD PARK, IL—
Event description
AMPUTATION OF LEFT LITTLE FINGER
Investigation abstract
On June 4, 1984, at about 9:00 a.m., Employee #1 was performing end finishing on muffler pipes with an Eagle spinner machine. He was pushing the pipe with his l eft hand and got it too close to the closing dies of the machine. His finger, wh ich was extended, was pinched in the jaws of the dies. He was hospitalized for h is injury. Guards on the machine were loose to accommodate the awkward pipe. The pipe had a bend that was very close to the end, which made guarding the point o f operation difficult. The machine was somewhat different from the other spinner s at the workplace. The employee was new and might not have been following instr uctions well.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.