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Accident Summary Nr: 100410.015 - Employee loses balance on conveyor and suffers multiple inju

Accident Summary Nr: 100410.015 -- Report ID: 0626000 -- Event Date: 10/26/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1274739.015	11/02/2017		311119	United Agricultural Cooperative, Inc.

Abstract: At 11:45 p.m. on October 26, 2017, an employee was operating a robotic loading and palletizing machine when two bags of deer corn fell off a pallet. The employee jumped up on the conveyor through the discharge section of the conveyor, and tripped a sensor which started the conveyor. The employee lost his balance and caught his foot and leg in a two inch gap between the conveyor and metal roller sections. The employee suffered a laceration to his knee, pulled tendons, a twisted knee, and lacerations to his ring fingertip. The employee was hospitalized.

Keywords: Caught Between, Caught In, Conveyor, Finger, Knee, Laceration, Lost Balance, Riding on Equipment, Robotics, Tendon

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1274739.015	20	M	Hospitalized injury		Laborers, except construction

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