OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14457543
HAND CONTROL,POWER PRESS,FINGER,LACERATION,HAND,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee cut finger in power press
Investigation abstract
An employee was operating a press for cutting plastic trim from Christmas orname ar enough. The control fell off the box and landed, switch down, on a nearby tab le, activating the press briefly. It came down on his left hand, pressing the li ttle finger and ring finger portion of his hand into the cutter. He said that he could not move his left hand and that he reached for the control with his right hand and pressed the button. The press went up, releasing his left hand. The em ployee sustained a severe laceration for which he was hospitalized. nts. The press had a single-button control on a flexible cable. The button was n ot recessed or guarded by a ring; however, it was spring loaded so that it remai ned open unless pressed by the operator. The press was a single-stroke, direct-d rive power press which stopped at any point in its stroke when the control butto n was released. The press had been known to drift. The employee had placed ornam ents in the press and had operated a full stroke. He laid the control on top of a switch box on the right side of the press. He put his hand on top of the ornam ents and cutting die to see if the cutter had cut through the plastic material f
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 18 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 715
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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