Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 97154.015 - Employee catches hand on conveyor and suffers lacerations

Accident Summary Nr: 97154.015 -- Report ID: 0521100 -- Event Date: 07/07/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1247076.015	07/14/2017		311421	Del Monte Foods Inc.

Abstract: At 5:30 a.m. on July 7, 2017, an employee was cleaning green beans from a Filler Machine Number 13 with Motor Serial Number W1308051648 canning machinery during the sanitation shift. The employee was at the end of the conveyor spraying down the equipment with a water hose and reached over to pull slack on the hose when she felt her hand being pulled into the conveyor. Her hand was caught between a metal plate that was angled to deflect green beans as they dropped from one conveyor to another. The employee was hospitalized and treated for left hand and lower forearm laceration.

Keywords: Caught In, Conveyor, Crushing, Forearm, Hand, Laceration

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1247076.015	44	F	Hospitalized injury		Machine operators, not specified

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