Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 128557.015 - Employee amputates fingertip in conveyor tracking slide

Accident Summary Nr: 128557.015 -- Report ID: 0830500 -- Event Date: 08/04/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1487867.015	08/10/2020		311812	Steven-Robert Originals, Llc

Abstract: At 5:30 a.m. on August 4, 2020, an employee was picking up balls of dough from a conveyor and placing them onto plastic trays. The employee attempted to push the conveyor to adjust it while it was in operation. As the employee placed her hands on the conveyor, one finger slipped inside a channel behind the pneumatic slide as the device activated. The employee incurred an amputation to her left middle fingertip and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Conveyor, Conveyor Belt, Energized, Finger, Fingertip, Guard, Machine Cycled, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Partial Amputation, Pinched, Pneumatic, Pneumatic system, Sheared, Slide, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1487867.015	40	F	Hospitalized injury		Food batchmakers

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