Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 143291.015 - Employee amputates finger when caught in spinning food grind

Accident Summary Nr: 143291.015 -- Report ID: 0111500 -- Event Date: 01/31/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1575612.015	02/01/2022		311811	Julia'S Bakery, Inc.

Abstract: At 11:20 p.m. on January 31, 2022, an employee who was wearing vinyl gloves was using both hands to apply pressure against a handle. The handle pushes frozen cake chunks down a chute and towards the face of a rotating shredding disk. The employee raised the pusher and looked down into the chute where she saw pieces of cake at the bottom that were not pushed into the shredder. The employee proceeded to use the back of her left hand to push the frozen cake into the rotating shredder. The employee's finger was pulled into a nip point by the rotating disk amputating her middle finger to the second knuckle and requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Chute, Clogged, Engineering Controls, Finger, Food processing, Glove, Grinder, Lack of Engineering Controls, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Nip Point, Partial Amputation, Pulled In, Rotating Parts

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1575612.015	27	F	Hospitalized injury		Kitchen workers, food preparation

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