105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14250591

BARRIER GUARD,LACERATION,POINT OF OPERATION,HAND,PRESS

Event
BARRIER GUARD,LACERATION,POINT OF OPERATION,HAND,PRESS
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14250591
Report ID
453710

Event description

Power Press Injury

Investigation abstract

On December 8, 1989, Employee operating mechanical power press was cutting lengt hs of one in square tubing in the press. A 4 in. length of tubing hung in the di e. The employee reached into the point of operation through an opening in the fr ont of the barrier guard on the press. The machine activated while the employee' s hand was in the point of operation. The employee received lacerations and brui se to the back of his right hand.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M

    Nature of injury
    7
    Part of body
    12
    Event type
    2
    Source
    26
    Occupation code
    706
    Human factor
    6
    Environmental factor
    1
    Task assigned
    2

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.