Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 133829.015 - Employee partially amputates finger while cleaning dough hop

Accident Summary Nr: 133829.015 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 08/22/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1493638.015	09/16/2020		311812	South Coast Baking, Llc.

Abstract: At 9:45 a.m. on August 22, 2020, an employee working as a machine operator for a commercial bakery was cleaning excess cookie dough off the dough hopper. The employee worked directly for the employer. The employee was working in the mixing area cleaning the dough off the hopper by hand when his finger contacted the unguarded portion of a pinch point. The employee partially amputated a finger, requiring medical treatment without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Bakery, Catch Point, Caught Between, Cleaning, Finger, Hopper, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Mixer, Partial Amputation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Traumatic Amputation, Unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1493638.015	60	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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