Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 139524.015 - Employee crushes hand when caught in container filling machi

Accident Summary Nr: 139524.015 -- Report ID: 0352450 -- Event Date: 09/01/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1551059.015	09/02/2021		325620	C-Care Llc

Abstract: At 1:09 p.m. on September 1, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for a specialty manufacturer was operating a Filamatic Model SYN-A-32-4 (Serial Number 021780) container filling machine. The employee stopped the machine to make a weight filling adjustment when she reached behind the guard. The guard had a 29-inch-long by 6-inch-wide opening located 48 inches above the floor. The employee was using a 9/16-inch wrench on the retaining nut to the fill weight when she pinned her right hand against the filling tube. The employee was hospitalized to treat a laceration, contusion and fracture to her hand.

Keywords: Bypass, Bypass Guard, Catch Point, Caught Between, Contusion, Crushed, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fracture, Hand, Hand Tool, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Manufacturing, Pinned, Production Line, Wrench

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1551059.015	41	F	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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