OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #734251
PIEDMONT OCONEE BEARING PLANT
WALHALLA, SC·
Event description
Employee's fingers fractured in power press
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a Kenco automatic feed, 5 ton, full-revolution, mechan ical power press, serial #86-819, to produce round, 2 inch bearings. The press h ad no point of operation guard. Just before the accident, Employee #1 found that the bearings were sticking to the ram/die. She put chalk on the die by hand to eliminate the oily surface and attempted to use the other hand to hit the STOP b utton, but hit the RUN button instead. The ram came down on Employee #1's finger s, fracturing them.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 58 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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