OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #976241
FRACTURE,MAINTENANCE,POWER PRESS,FINGER,CRUSHED,POINT OF OPERATION,UNGUARDED,INATTENTION,RAM
Event description
Employee's fingers fractured by ram of a press
Investigation abstract
At approximately 3:00 p.m. on January 30, 1988, Employee #1 reached into a Tishk r between the press ram and the top of the die. The east panel of the plexiglass barrier guard had been raised during these repairs and trial runs, and no safet y jacks were in use. en 4 ton full-revolution mechanical power press for a third time to thread metal stock through the die and align the stock with a cut-off bar. Employee #1, an e xperienced maintenance man working alongside the maintenance lead man, had reach ed into the die impact zone twice previously with the press motor de-energized, but, for this third time, he had forgotten that they had activated the press mot or. When the die was pushed west by his right hand, it pushed the cam press trig ger mechanism, activating a limit switch that tripped the press. The press ram s mashed and fractured the first two phalanges of Employee #1's right little finge
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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