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Accident Summary Nr: 139132.015 - Employee amputates thumb and fingertip when pulled into sawb

Accident Summary Nr: 139132.015 -- Report ID: 0522000 -- Event Date: 09/06/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1552894.015	09/15/2021		445110	The Kroger Co.

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on September 6, 2021, an employee working as a butcher in a grocery store was working in the meat department. The employee was operating a Biro Model 3334 (Serial Number 52744) bandsaw cutting bone-in ribeye steaks which were on sale that week. There were no coworkers or customers in the area at the time to witness what occurred. The employee reached behind the blade with his left hand to remove a steak he was cutting from the saw table. The bone caught in the sawblade and pulled the employee's right hand and protective push plate into the blade. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputated thumb and index fingertips. The fingertip was reattached.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Bandsaw, Butcher, Caught By, Cutting, Finger, Fingertip, Food processing, Glove, Grocery Store, Hand, Hand Tool, Instantaneous amputation, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Material Handling, Meat Slicing Machine, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Partial Amputation, Pulled In, Reaching, Sawblade, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation, Work Surface

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1552894.015	25	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Butchers and meat cutters

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