Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 117424.015 - Employee Amputates Finger In Conveyor Belt

**Accident: 117424.015 -- Report ID: 0521100 -- Event Date: 06/21/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1410999.015	06/26/2019		Green Bay Dressed Beef, Llc

At 2:00 p.m. on June 21, 2019, an employee was evaluating the meat package seals on a conveyor line. The employee was picking up a plastic wrapped meat package when he got his right pinkie finger stuck in the conveyor belt opening. As the e mployee was trying to pull his finger out the conveyor belting, the right pinkie fingertip was severed. The employee suffered amputation of the right pinkie fin gertip. The employee received treatment but was not hospitalized.

Keywords: amputation, caught in, conveyor belt, fingertip, meat processing, severed

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1410999.015	35	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Packaging and filling machine operators

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