OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #971192
AMPUTATED,POWER PRESS,FINGER,WORK RULES,FOOT CONTROL,LOCKOUT,POINT OF OPERATION,UNGUARDED,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee amputates fingers in power press
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was stamping out metal parts with a mechanical power press. The pres s could be operated by either a two hand trip or a foot pedal. At the time of th e accident it was being operated by foot pedal and there was no point of operati on guard being used, nor were hand tools being used. The employee reached into t he point of operation to remove a part and inadvertently pushed the foot pedal a nd cycled the machine, amputating parts of two fingers.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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