OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #997478
ACTIVE PRODUCTS CORPORATION
MARION, IN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE'S FINGER AMPUTATED IN PRESS
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 10:20 PM ON OCTOBER 12, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ASSIGNED THE TASK OF "SCRAPMAN" (CLEANING UP SCRAP) AROUND THE PRESSES. AS HE STEPPED ONTO THE WO RK PLATFORM OF PRESS C-4 TO TALK TO THE PRESS'S OPERATOR, HE PLACED HIS LEFT HAN D ON THE PRESS HEEL BLOCK. THE PRESS OPERATOR DID NOT NOTICE EMPLOYEE #1'S PRESE NCE AND ACTIVATED THE PRESS. WHEN THE PRESS CLOSED IT AMPUTATED EMPLOYEE #1'S MI DDLE FINGER, ABOVE THE SECOND JOINT, ON HIS LEFT HAND.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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