OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14197396
BLACK & DECKER PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS DIVISION
HAMPSTEAD, MD—
Event description
Employee caught wrist in field winding machine
Investigation abstract
An employee had been working approximately 2 months as a bench operator in a win wrist against another part of the machine. The set-up worker for the machines w as directly opposite her and immediately released her wrist. The injured employe e, who had suffered only a contusion, was transported to a hospital, where she w as examined and released. The machine had an emergency stop button, automatic mo de buttons, and manual control. It also had an interlocked gate guard covering t he side of the machine. None of the other employees who were interviewed ever to uched the field winding machines as part of their duties. ding department. Her task was to tape small motors once they exited a field-wind ing machine. She did not operate any machinery, but was assigned only general du ties involving work area cleanliness at the end of the work shift. On the day of the accident, she was cleaning up her immediate and surrounding work area. She saw some broken conductors in a globe station winder (Model No. HSWPC-2100, Seri al No. A-2037) and put her left hand into the machine in an area away form its p oint of operation. This machine was operating at the time, and it cycled while t he employee's hand was in it. The output portion of the machine pressed her left
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 F
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 17
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 795
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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