OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221437155
ONETO METAL PRODUCTS
SACRAMENTO, CA·
Event description
Employee's thumb is lacerated in sheet metal press
Investigation abstract
At 12:40 p.m. on November 11, 2021, an employee of a sheet metal manufacturing company was adjusting sheet metal between the two plates of a CNC folder/press. While the employee was holding the sheet metal in place, the CNC folder/press was activated. The employee's thumb became caught underneath the edge of the sheet metal and was lacerated. He was treated without hospitalization. There was a lack of proper safeguards while working within the zone of the CNC folder/press, as well as a lack of proper tools to use the CNC folder/press.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 27 M
- Event type
- 2
- Occupation code
- 655
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