OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #892141
TATE ACCESS FLOORS, INC.
JESSUP, MD·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Cut/Laceration (7)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Punching and stamping press machine operators (706)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- SHEAR POINT ACTION (3)
- 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.