OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14443931
SINGER FURNITURE COMPANY-DIVISION OF SINGER
ROANOKE, VA—
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated in molding machine
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:15 p.m. on September 18, 1984, Employee #1, age 18, had just finished sending the remainder of his materials through the feed side of a S. A. Woods molding machine, #127M-T. When the foreman entered the machine enclosure to set the machine for a different operation, Employee #1 followed to assist him . The foreman terminated the power to the molding machine, which Employee #1 app arently understood to mean that all functions had stopped. He leaned against the machine, putting his right hand in the area of the bottom head. The bottom head was still rotating to a stop and struck Employee #1's hand, amputating his two center fingers were damaging his thumb.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 733
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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