Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 71,450Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221488554

LEEDY MFG CO.

Event
Bending Machine, Caught Between, Die, Fracture, Partial Amputation, Press Brake, Steel, Steel Plate, Thumb
NAICS
333514
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#346149727
Employer profile
LEEDY MFG CO.
Summary number
221488554
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Employee amputates thumb tip in brake press

Investigation abstract

At 6:30 a.m. on February 25, 2022, an employee was making bends in a Trumpf TruBend 5085 Hydrualic Brake Press when his thumbs were caught between the die punch and the steel part he was bending. The employee suffered an amputation to tip of his right thumb and a fracture to his left thumb. The employee was treated without hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 22 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    747

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.