OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14200240
TRANS TECH INC
ADAMSTOWN, MD—
Event description
EMPLOYEE'S TIP OF MIDDLE FINGER AMPUTATED IN PUNCH PRESS
Investigation abstract
On January 29, 1985, Employee #1, a press operator, was manufacturing ceramic pa tic mode so that the two-hand button control would only have to be touched once. He reached inside the front opening to retrieve the manufactured ceramic parts. He placed the tip of his middle finger of his right hand over the die cavity, a nd it was amputated by the press. rts. The employee was using a Mohr compacting press Model Number m-15, Serial Nu mber K15-84-1, manufactured 8-84. The compacting press had a two-hand button con trol located in a control console separate from the press. The press was enclose d by interlocking glass doors except for the front operator's location, which ha d an opening 12 in. wide and 31 in. high. In the press, a metal feeder shoe move d from back to front, loaded the die, and pushed forward the ceramic part that h ad just been formed. Employee #1 had to reach 10 in. inside the front opening to retrieve the manufactured ceramic parts. Employee #1 placed the press on automa
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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