OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #892141
FRACTURE,FINGER,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY,LACERATION,UNTRAINED,PRESS,UNGUARDED,BLIND REACHING,MACHINE--MISC
Event description
Employee's finger injured in scrap cutter
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was testing die components for proper alignment using an Equip-Aide the press. Engineering Ltd. press, serial #0020-0470, model #01-20 (2), company designation Tapco-1165. He started the press on automatic and went around to the side of th e machine, effectively bypassing the operation's light curtain. He reached his r ight hand near the die area to feel the left rear bushing and was caught by the rear scrap cutter, sustaining severe lacerations and a fracture of the right rin g finger between the nail base and the first joint. Causal factors improper trai ning in safe installation procedures, misjudgment of a hazardous situation, bypa ssing an effective light curtain guard, and lack of guarding on the left side of
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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