OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #689711
INDUSTRIAL GASKET COMPANY
MPLS, MN—
Event description
PUNCH PRESS DOUBLE TRIPPED, AMPUTATING EMPLOYEE'S FINGERS
Investigation abstract
ON AUGUST 6, 1985, AT ABOUT 3:35 PM, EMPLOYEE #1, A PUNCH PRESS OPERATOR, WAS ST ARTING WORK ON THE SECOND SHIFT. HE HAD JUST RUN OFF ONE GASKET PIECE ON HIS MAC HINE AND WAS SETTING UP TO DO THE SECOND. HE REACHED INTO THE DIE AREA OF THE PA RTIAL REVOLUTION PRESS TO RETRIEVE THE STOCK WHEN, ACCORDING TO HIM, THE MACHINE "DOUBLE TRIPPED", CRUSHING AND AMPUTATING THE FIRST THREE FINGERS OF HIS RIGHT HAND AT THE FIRST JOINT. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 20 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 706
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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