OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14234959
LIKA SOUTHWEST
AZLE, TX—
Event description
HAND AMPUTATED IN IN PUNCH PRESS.
Investigation abstract
ON AUGUST 6, 1984, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPERATING A 45 TON BLISS PRESS, OBI, PUNCHING WAS AMPUTATED. EMPLOYEE #1 SCREAMED AND LEANED BACK. THE PANELBOARD FELL TO ONE SIDE, RELEASING THE BUTTONS. HOWEVER, THE RAM WOULD NOT RETURN TO THE STARTING P OSITION UNTIL ANOTHER EMPLOYEE IN THE PRESS ROOM PUSHED BOTH BUTTONS AND RAISED THE RAM INTO THE UPPER POSTION. EMPLOYEE #1 WORKS FOR TANDY MARKETING COMPANIES, DIVISION OF TANDY CORPORATION DBA, LIKA SOUTHWEST, 200 COMMERCE STREET, AZLE, T X 76020. THE COMPANY MANUFACTURES ELECTRONIC COMPUTER BOARDS. THE POINT OF OPERA TION ON THE BLISS PRESS WAS NOT GUARDED. OUT ELECTRONIC COMPUTER BOARDS. THE BOARD WAS 18 INCHES WIDE AND 24 INCHES LONG , WHICH MEANT THAT EMPLOYEE #1 HAD TO TURN THE BOARD SEVERAL TIMES IN ORDER TO P UNCH OUT ALL NEEDED AREAS. EMPLOYEE #1 PLACED THE BOARD IN HER LAP AND LEANED FO RWARD, REACHING INTO THE PRESS TO REMOVE SOME LODGED MATERIAL. WHEN SHE LEANED F ORWARD, THE PANELBOARD IN HER LAP PRESSED AGAINST THE 2 CONTROL BUTTONS LOCATED ON THE FRONT OF THE PRESS BED (THESE BUTTON WERE NOT RECESSED TO PREVENT UNINTEN TIONAL ACTIVATION OF THE RAM). THE BUTTONS WERE PRESSED CONCURRENTLY AND THE RAM CAME DOWN ON EMPLOYEE #1'S HANDS. HER LEFT HAND WAS CRUSHED AND HER RIGHT HAND
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 F
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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