OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #802900
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.
GREENVILLE, SC·
Event description
Employee's fingers crushed in power press
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were running laminates on a Qualitek hydraulic regist e was hospitalized. Safety blocks and a receiving hook were provided for employe es to use. ration press, serial #88F-35479-AA7. Employee #1 fed material and her coworker r eceived the finished product. The press was in automatic mode, with activation b y four fiber-optic sensors that initiated the press once the material was proper ly aligned. The two workers had been running plates for approximately 10 minutes when a laminate became stuck before it was punched. Employee #1 asked her cowor ker if the plate had exited. When he said it had not, she lifted the barrier gua rd on the feed end and reached into the point of operation. When she touched the laminate plate, the press activated, crushing the fingers on her right hand. Sh
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 Female
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Misc. metal & plastic processing machine operators (725)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- 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.