Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 130107.015 - Employee fractures hand and arm when cleaning conveyor rolle

Accident Summary Nr: 130107.015 -- Report ID: 0524500 -- Event Date: 10/02/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1496141.015	10/06/2020		311999	Quaker Manufacturing, Llc

Abstract: At 8:45 a.m. on October 2, 2020, an employee working as a machine operator for a food manufacturer was cleaning a cooling tunnel conveyor. The employee caught his left hand up to his forearm in the conveyor rollers pinching his arm between the two rollers. The employee was hospitalized to treat multiple broken bones to his hand and arm.

Keywords: Arm, Caught Between, Caught In, Cleaning, Conveyor, Forearm, Fracture, Hand, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Power Roller, Roller Conveyor, Roller--Mach/Part, Work Surface

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1496141.015	40	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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