OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #828632
FAIRTRON CORPORATION
DES MOINES, IA·
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated in brake press
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a brake press to bend small pieces of aluminum to a 90 deg ree angle. When reached with his hand to remove a part the top ram came down, am putating the middle, ring, and little fingers and to the first joint of his inde x finger. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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