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Accident Summary Nr: 142470.015 - Employee amputates fingertip when cleaning machine that cycl

Accident Summary Nr: 142470.015 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 08/05/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1560359.015	10/27/2021		325411	Lief Organics Llc

Abstract: At 2:40 p.m. on August 5, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for a medicinal and botanical products manufacture was cleaning a machine. The employee caught his finger between moving parts when the machine unexpectedly moved due to residual energy. The employee was hospitalized to treat an amputated fingertip.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught Between, Cleaning, Energized, Finger, Fingertip, Instantaneous amputation, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Cycled, Machine operator, Manufacturing, Moving Object, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Partial Amputation, Production Line, Residual , Staffing Agency, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1560359.015	61	M	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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