OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14236541
DIE BLADES,AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BETWEEN,PRESS OPERATOR,HAND,PRESS
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated in press brake
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a press brake operator, was changing the die on the ram of a Chicag o 60 ton press when the press activated and the dies closed. Half of the employe e's left hand was amputated, along with three and a half fingers. He was hospita lized. Employee #1 had bypassed the light guard and was working without a ram bl ock.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 637
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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