OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221427453
CALDWELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY NORTH AMERICA, LLC
WILLIAMSPORT, MD·
Event description
Employee amputates finger in pneumatic press
Investigation abstract
At 10:30 a.m. on January 12, 2022, an employee was setting up the Dinger #2 Constant Force Spring manufacturing machine and adjusting the stamp press/dies. A coworker stated that he was programming the computer set up of the quantity for the next run of springs, and the machine cycled the stamp press machine within the process, causing it to come down on the employee's middle left finger, crushing it in the proximal location of the third knuckle and amputating that section. The employee was treated without hospitalization.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 56 M
- Event type
- 14
- Occupation code
- 779
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