OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689018
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
DULUTH, MN—
Event description
Employee injured thumb in grommet machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 injured his left thumb on a foot-powered grommet machine manufacture d by United Shoe. The employee failed to remove his thumb from the die before de pressing the operating pedal, and the machine punctured his thumb.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 749
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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