OSHA investigators arrived in Temecula, CA on Monday, August 28th 2017 and began an accident investigation which had occured previously at Tension Envelope Corp. A 24 year old Machine operator had been injured when the employee was cleaning gum build
Accident Date2017-08-19
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeAt 1:30 p.m. on August 19, 2017, an employee was cleaning a gum build-up off the cylinders of the R2 527 WEB folding machine. The employee removed the guards that cover the cylinders, wrapped a small rag around his hand, and began pressing the start/stop buttons to inch the cylinders. The employee's rag was pulled into the machine along with his right hand pinky. The employee amputated the tip of his pinky and was transported to the Inland Valley Medical Center where he was hospitalized for twelve hours.