Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 121229.015 - Employee amputates finger when caught in auger scooping prod

Accident Summary Nr: 121229.015 -- Report ID: 0627100 -- Event Date: 10/22/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1441612.015	10/29/2019		424420	Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation

Abstract: At 11:00 a.m. on October 22, 2019, an employee working for a frozen food packaging company was dumping a gram into a hopper. The employee was hand scooping the gram inside the hopper when he caught his left hand in the auger. The employee amputated his middle finger and required medical treatment without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Auger, Auger Mechanism, Caught In, Finger, Food processing, Hand, Hopper, Instantaneous amputation, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Pinched, Struck By, Traumatic Amputation, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1441612.015	36	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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