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Accident Summary Nr: 201157757 - Employee is injured when fingertip amputated by dough pump

Accident Summary Nr: 201157757 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 07/16/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300862992	07/31/2003	2052	311919	Anita'S Mexican Foods Corporation

Abstract: At 11:50 p.m. on July 16, 2003, Employee #1, a Production Department machine operator for a Mexican food manufacturer, suffered an amputation to his left index finger at the nail bed. Employee #1 was cleaning a Baldor electric dough pump prior to a production run. Employee #1 reached into the windmilling dough pump to remove a glob of corn dough when the pump's rotating impeller severed his fingertip. Employee #1 was not hospitalized.

Keywords: AMPUTATED, FOOD PREPARATION, FINGER, CAUGHT BY, BLADE, PUMP

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	300862992			Non Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Food batchmakers

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