OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14465470
VIP PRINTING INC DBA VIP SAMPLES
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX—
Event description
Employee's hands amputated by guillotine shear
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was cutting material with a 50 in. Seybold Guillotine shear, serial #16580,equipped with two hand-trip buttons. The buttons had been installed to pr event employees from getting their hands into the blade area. Employee #1 had ta ped up one of the buttons and used his knee to trip the other button. He had bot h hands under the blade when he accidentally hit the untaped button with his kne e. This activated a stroke of the blade, which amputated both of his hands just below the wrists. The distance from the trip buttons to the blade area was 26 in ches. The shear blade made a complete cycle in one second.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- 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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