OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #665851

AMPUTATED,POWER PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,POINT OF OPERATION,HAND TOOL,PRESS OPERATOR

1989-02-22T00:00:00

Event: AMPUTATED,POWER PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,POINT OF OPERATION,HAND TOOL,PRESS OPERATOR
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 665851
Report ID: 112300

Event description

Employees fingers amputated in power press

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was operating a Perkins full-revolution power press, model #550-B, i n single stroke operation. The employee had just cut a piece of work and reached into the point of operation to remove it when the spring on the single stroke m echanism broke and the press cycled repeatedly. Employee #1 sustained the amputa tion of four right fingers. She was not using hand tools to remove the piece.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 48 F

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
999

Human factor
11

Environmental factor
3

Task assigned
1

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