Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201509411 - Employee Is Injured When Hand Caught in Bag Sealer

Accident Summary Nr: 201509411 -- Report ID: 0950614 -- Event Date: 09/05/2009
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312357601	09/16/2009	2673	322223	Uni Poly, Inc

Abstract: On September 5, 2009, Employee #1, a machine operator, was operating a bag sealer machine. One of the bags became wrinkled. Employee #1 proceeded to fix the wrinkled bag without stopping the machine. While adjusting the bag, the fingers on his right hand were pulled into the unguarded in-running nip point. Employee #1 suffered serious injuries to his right hand fingers, with the degloving of his ring finger. The skin on the finger was replaced, and Employee #1 had skin grafts. Employee #1 was hospitalized for seven days at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.

Keywords: FINGER, MACHINE OPERATOR, CAUGHT BY, SKIN, NIP POINT, SEALING MACHINE, HAND, UNGUARDED

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	312357601			Hospitalized injury	Other	Machine operators, not specified

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