OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #809293
ACME UNITED CORPORATION
FREMONT, NC·
Event description
Employee's hand lacerated by press cam mechanism
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:15 p.m. on December 15, 1988, Employee #1 was setting up a di e on the Niagara trim press machine, serial #45004, at the plant. As Employee #1 reached under the existing guard to touch the brake shaft to determine its temp erature, the cam caught his ring finger and pulled his left hand into the mechan ism. Employee #1's entire hand was lacerated.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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