OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14459028
AIRCO WELDING PRODUCTS INC
SPARROWS POINT, MD—
Event description
Employee's finger amputated in flux core machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a flux core machine and was checking the steel for lub rication, when his right middle finger was drawn into the forming rolls and ampu tated.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 7
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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