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Accident Summary Nr: 118252.015 - Employee amputates fingertip on nut auger while unjamming ho

Accident Summary Nr: 118252.015 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 07/01/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1415362.015	07/15/2019		311520	Wells Enterprises, Inc.

Abstract: At 2:15 a.m. on July 1, 2019, an employee was reaching his hand into a peanut hopper to remove a jam when he inadvertantly placed his finger in a hole in the auger guard. The employee amputated his fintertip and was treated without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Auger, Auger Mechanism, Caught In, Finger, Fingertip, Food processing, Guard, Hand, Hopper, Jammed, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Partial Amputation, Pinched, Rotating Parts, Struck By, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1415362.015	27	M	Non Hospitalized injury

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