Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170883557 - Employee's left hand crushed while cleaning conveyor line

Accident Summary Nr: 170883557 -- Report ID: 0950642 -- Event Date: 05/24/1995
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
119868289	06/16/1995	5146	0	Galletti Brothers Foods Inc

Abstract: At approximately 1:00 a.m. on May 24, 1995, Employee #1, a night shift sanitation worker for Galletti Brother Foods, Inc., a large wholesale distributor of seafood and meat, was cleaning a running conveyor line in the frozen fish department. A cover plate had been taken off the machine and Employee #1 was kneeling down, applying a degreaser with a gloved hand. Her left arm and hand were caught in the machine and fractured. A coworker came to help her. She was hospitalized for two days at the Santa Marta Hospital. Causal factors include cleaning the machine without stopping, deenergizing and blocking it. A serious violation of T8CCR 3314(a) was observed and cited.

Keywords: FRACTURE, GLOVE, WORK RULES, CLEANING, CAUGHT BY, LOCKOUT, CONVEYOR, ARM, HAND

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	119868289			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Janitors and cleaners

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