OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #758672
WORLD MANUFACTURING INC
MUNCIE, IN·
Event description
Employee's fingers cut in press point of operation
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:45 p.m. on November 18, 1987, Employee #1 was placing a 2 1/2 in. by 2 in. w-shaped wire part in the point of operation of an estimated 30 to n Toledo mechanical part revolution power press, serial #19432. The press double tripped, closing the dies on her fingers and cutting and lacerating them. The d ies had an opening of 2 1/2 in. between them that bent the lower points on the w -shaped wire upward. The press did not have point of operation guarding, single mechanism, fly wheel guarding, pulley guarding, or enclosed belt. The press had double tripped shortly before Employee #1's accident.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 F
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 17
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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