OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14251003
THE CAROLINA STAMPING COMPANY, INC.
SPENCER, NC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE'S FINGERS AMPUTATED IN POWER PRESS ACCIDENT
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 2:25 PM ON JULY 8, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPERATING A BLISS 42 T THE COMPRESSION TYPE AND WAS BROKEN IN ANY EVENT. ON, FULL REVOLUTION MECHANICAL POWER PRESS. PORTIONS OF THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FIN GERS OF HIS LEFT HAND WERE AMPUTATEED WHEN THEY WERE CAUGHT IN THE POINT OF OPER ATION. HE STATED THAT HE PRESSED THE TREADLE, REMOVED HIS FOOT, AND REACHED HIS HAND INTO THE DIE AREA TO REMOVE A PART. THE PRESS RAM CYCLED AGAIN (REPEATED) A ND AMPUTATED HIS FINGERTIPS. THE POINT OF OPERATION GUARD HAD BEEN REMOVED BY EM PLOYEE #1. CAUSAL FACTORS WERE: 1. THE SINGLE STROKE MECHANISM WAS NOT INCORPORA TED; 2. THE POINT OF OPERATION GUARD HAD BEEN REMOVED; AND 3. THE EMPLOYEE PLACE D HIS HAND INTO THE POINT OF OPERATION. ALSO, THE PEDAL RETURN SPRING WAS NOT OF
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 15
- Task assigned
- 1
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