Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 143528.015 - Employee amputates fingertip in unguarded conveyor belt

Accident Summary Nr: 143528.015 -- Report ID: 0950625 -- Event Date: 12/04/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1570852.015	01/04/2022		493120	Eastside Packing Inc.

Abstract: At 6:30 p.m. on December 4, 2021, an employee was cleaning sorting equipment at a fruit sorting and packaging facility. The employee had used a ladder to reach an unguarded elevated platform approximately one foot wide by four to six foot long above a running conveyor belt. The employee caught his right hand in the belt and incurred an amputation to his ring fingertip. The employee required medical treatment without hospitalization for the amputation and subsequent bone loss.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Belt Conveyor, Caught In, Cleaning, Conveyor, Conveyor Belt, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Finger, Fingertip, Food processing, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Machine operator, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pinched, Supervision

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1570852.015	34	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Food Cleanup Worker

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