OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #910075

PULL BACK DEVICE,MAINTENANCE,AMPUTATED,POWER PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,POINT OF OPERATION,UNGUARDED

1990-02-27T00:00:00

Event: PULL BACK DEVICE,MAINTENANCE,AMPUTATED,POWER PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,POINT OF OPERATION,UNGUARDED
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 910075
Report ID: 454510

Event description

Employee's fingertips amputated in power press

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was operating a Minster 75 ton full-revolution mechanical power pres s that used a possum guard pull out device to protect the operator from the poin t of operation. The employee forgot to reset the possum guards after changing th e dies on the press and her fingertips entered the point of operation. She suffe red partial loss of her index and middle fingers.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 39 F

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
10

Event type
2

Source
26

Occupation code
706

Human factor
10

Environmental factor
1

Task assigned
1

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