Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 93626.015 - Employee amputates arm cleaning dough chunker machine

Accident Summary Nr: 93626.015 -- Report ID: 0626300 -- Event Date: 03/02/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1214803.015	03/03/2017		311824	Treehouse Foods, Inc.

Abstract: At 2:30 a.m. on March 2, 2017, Employee #1, a sanitary crew worker employed by a food processing company, was performing machine maintenance. He was cleaning out a pie line dough chunker machine when he placed his left arm into the machine to remove a remnant of dough. Employee #1's body tripped the photo eye that activated the Teflon blade. The blade amputated the employee's left arm below the shoulder.

Keywords: Amputation, Arm, Automatic Restart, Blade, Caught In, Cleaning, Food Preparation, Machine Guarding, Maintenance

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1214803.015	70	M	Hospitalized injury

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