OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14339535
PIN,POWER PRESS,FINGER,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,CRUSHED,RAM
Event description
Employee's fingers crushed by press ram
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a Niagara 45M mechanical power press equipped with two -hand controls. Employee #1 was removing a part with his left hand when the pin, which attaches the brake plunger to the brake lever, broke. The power press ram fell, crushing the fourth and fifth fingers of his left hand.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 43 F
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 719
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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.