OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #738237

FINGER,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,NIP POINT,PRESS,UNGUARDED

1987-09-29T00:00:00

Event: FINGER,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,NIP POINT,PRESS,UNGUARDED
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 738237
Report ID: 452110

Event description

Employee's hand injured when caught in press pinch point

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 caught his left hand in the unguarded pinch point area of four side stop blocks of a press. Three of his fingers were crushed and he was hospitalize d.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
717

Human factor
9

Environmental factor
1

Task assigned
2

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