OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #745232

PRINTING PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,POINT OF OPERATION,PRESS OPERATOR,UNGUARDED

1988-02-18T00:00:00

Event: PRINTING PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,POINT OF OPERATION,PRESS OPERATOR,UNGUARDED
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 745232
Report ID: 352420

Event description

Employee's fingers crushed in printing press

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was feeding paper stock into a 1965 Carver die stamping #161-A serie s printing press to print business cards. His left hand was contacted by the die of the press and his index and middle fingers were crushed. The Carver press wa s not equipped with a point of operation guard that prevented body parts from en tering the danger zone.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 17 M

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
734

Human factor
14

Environmental factor
3

Task assigned
1

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