Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 139423.015 - Employee amputates thumb tip when pulled into bandsaw sawbla

Accident Summary Nr: 139423.015 -- Report ID: 0213100 -- Event Date: 09/20/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1554342.015	09/23/2021		445110	Hannaford Bros. Co., Llc

Abstract: At 1:00 p.m. on September 20, 2021, an employee working for a grocery store was cutting bone-in pork loins steaks with a bandsaw. The employee was cutting an approximately 10-inch-long piece of meat when the sawblade pulled the meat into the sawblade taking his right hand with it. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputation to his thumb tip.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Bandsaw, Butcher, Caught By, Finger, Fingertip, Food Handling, Grocery Store, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Meat Processing, Meat Slicing Machine, Partial Amputation, Pulled In, Saw, Sawblade, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1554342.015	39	M	Non Hospitalized injury

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