OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #902353
AMPUTATED,INADEQUATE MAINT,POWER PRESS,BARRIER GUARD,FINGER,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,INEXPERIENCE,FOOT-POWERED PRESS,UNTRAINED
Event description
New, untrained employee's fingers amputated in power press
Investigation abstract
At approximately 6:05 p.m. on February 28, 1990, Employee #1, a 29-year-old newl ger and the first two phalanges of the middle left finger were crushed and amput ated. The barrier guard was completely insufficient and the training practices w ere poor; neither management nor maintenance had inspected the press for at leas t 7 months prior to the accident. y-hired (2 days) employee of Aisin USA Manufacturing, Inc., had been rudimentari ly trained by another inexperienced press operator for four to five part cycles. The training had begun about 45 minutes before Employee #1, having run only 10 parts by himself, reached through a gaping opening (8 in. high by 13 1/2 in. wid e) in a lexan plexiglass barrier guard to guide parts. With his left hand still in the die impact zone of the point of operation, Employee #1 leaned forward, pl aced his weight on the foot pedal, and accidentally tripped the Aida 30 ton part revolution mechanical power press, model #NCI-45 (2). His entire left index fin
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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