Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200800183 - Employee's arm amputated in meat blender

Accident Summary Nr: 200800183 -- Report ID: 0523300 -- Event Date: 12/19/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300569720	12/20/1999	2013	0	Kraft Foods Global, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1, a sanitation worker at a meat processor, was cleaning a blender/mixer machine that consisted of a vat with two horizontal agitators and two pneumatically operated discharge doors at one end. A cover/guard over the discharge doors was protected with a proximity sensor or interlock to shut off the agitator when the cover was removed. Employee #1 has taken off the cover but the sensor failed to stop the agitators. He was reaching through an open discharge door into the mixer when his gloved fingers became caught on a rotating agitator. His arm was pulled into the mixer and was amputated at the shoulder.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, GLOVE, ROTATING KNIFE, WORK RULES, CLEANING, CAUGHT BY, INTERLOCK, ARM, MEAT BLENDING MACH, MECH MALFUNCTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	300569720			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Occupation not reported

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