OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #665851
AMERICAN TOURISTER INC
WARREN, RI·
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
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#1 Hospitalized Age 48 Female
- Nature of injury
- Amputation (1)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- SHEAR POINT ACTION (3)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.