OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14480230
K & E PLASTICS INC
LONG VALLEY, NJ—
Event description
Employee injures finger in table saw
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was in the shop area cutting plastic on a Rockwell Manufacturing 10 in. table saw, serial #34-450, FN 8353, when he suffered a deep laceration to hi s thumb. The saw was equipped with a Unisaw blade with 82 carbide teeth and was being operated without an appropriate saw guard.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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