Inspection Detail

Inspection: 1526561.015 - Nassau Candy Distributors, Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: Long Island Area Office

Investigation Summary

At 1:00 p.m. on April 16, 2021, an employee was working for a firm that made confectionaries from chocolate it had purchased. It was a wholesaler. The employee was from Mexico. She was Hispanic or Latino. She had been in the U.S. for more than three years. She did not speak English well, and she was not able to converse effectively in English. The employee's primary language was Spanish. The primary language spoken by her coworkers was Spanish. Her supervisor was fluent in Spanish. The primary language spoken at the workplace was Spanish. Any training the employee had received had been in Spanish. She was operating an Inkcup Model Number ICN-150 two-color large image pad printer. The employee had the small finger on her left hand in an open rail where the working table slid back and forth. This location was an exposed pinch point hazard. The working table moved to the left, pinching the employee's finger between the working table and the open rail. The tip of the employee's left small finger was amputated. The employee was treated without hospitalization.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Instantaneous amputation, Lack of Engineering Controls, Machine Guarding, Nip Point, Printer, Traumatic Amputation, Unsafe Position, Work Surface