Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 120662.015 - Employee amputates two fingertips when caught in picnic skin

Accident Summary Nr: 120662.015 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 10/04/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1436504.015	10/11/2019		311611	Swift Pork Company

Abstract: At 7:30 p.m. on October 4, 2019, an employee was working in a meat processing plant doing his assigned job of "facing picnics" using a picnic skinner. The employee was standing on the left side of the machine using a hose with 180 degree water to clean the fat off of the picnic skinner. The employee was holding a knife in one hand and went to place his other hand under the hot water when the steel mesh was caught by the machinery. The roller of the skinner pulled the employee's hand into the point of operation. The employee amputated his middle and ringer fingertips and required medical treatment without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Finger, Fingertip, Food processing, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Work Procedures, Machine operator, Meat Processing, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Puncture Wound, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1436504.015	43	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Hand cutting and trimming occupations

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