Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #969527

KLEMP CORP

Event
FRACTURE, MAINTENANCE, WORK RULES, CAUGHT BY, LOCKOUT, HAND, PRESS, MACHINE--MISC
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#105588206
Employer profile
KLEMP CORP
Summary number
969527
Report ID
854910

Event description

Employee's hand fractured in automatic press

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 reached into a Forge Welder 100 ton automatic press to straighten a rod without first shutting off the machine. His hand became caught in the press and was fractured. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 27 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    12
    Event type
    2
    Source
    26
    Occupation code
    713
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    4
    Task assigned
    1

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