Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 137120.015 - Employee amputates two fingers when pulled into labeling mac

Accident Summary Nr: 137120.015 -- Report ID: 0950612 -- Event Date: 07/12/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1541487.015	07/13/2021		111998	Taylor Farms Retail, Inc.

Abstract: At 5:54 a.m. on July 12, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for a crop farming operation was performing leaf vegetable packaging. The employee was standing in front of a FIRM ultrasonic welder labeling machine. The employee was ensuring labels were placed correctly and was pulling out bad containers from the conveyer. She noticed that lids from the machine were getting jammed inside the machine, so she reached inside to un-jam the machine. The machine caught her left hand. The employee was wearing two sets of gloves with nylon gloves on the inside and nitrile gloves on the outside. The rotating spike shaft caught her left nylon glove pulling in her thumb into the machine. The employee was transported to the hospital, where she was admitted with an amputated thumb and a lacerated pinky finger.

Keywords: Agriculture, Agriculture Machinery/Vehicle, Amputated, Amputation, Blind Reaching, Catch Point, Caught By, Farm, Farm Machinery, Farm worker, Finger, Food Handling, Glove, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Jammed, Lack of Work Procedures, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Material Handling, Packaging, Packaging Machine, Packaging Machinery, Puncture, Puncture Wound, Reaching In, Rotating Parts, Rotating Shaft, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation, Welder

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1541487.015	53	F	Hospitalized injury		Packaging and filling machine operators

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