Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 133323.015 - Employee retrieving tool lacerates hand in hopper cutters

Accident Summary Nr: 133323.015 -- Report ID: 0111400 -- Event Date: 02/15/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1515030.015	02/17/2021		311812	Fireking Baking Company, Inc.

Abstract: At 2:30 p.m. on February 15, 2021, an employee working for a commercial bakery was scraping the sides of a hopper that had finished processing dough. The employee was using a handled scraping tool to perform the task. As he was scraping the sides, he dropped the tool into the hopper. The employee reached into the hopper to retrieve the tool at which time the hopper activated via a sensor mounted at the top of the hopper edge. Activation meant the cutting tools ("star cutters") that cut the dough into pieces moved. The employee caught his right hand in the star cutters. The employee was hospitalized to treat a severe laceration to his hand.

Keywords: Activated, Bakery, Caught By, Cleaning, Cutter, Dropped, Energized, Food processing, Hand, Hand Tool, Hopper, Knife, Laceration, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Rotating Knife, Scraper

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1515030.015	62	M	Hospitalized injury

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