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Accident: 828194 - Employee'S Finger Cut By Conveyor Belt

Accident: 828194 -- Report ID: 0751910 -- Event Date: 06/10/1991
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
10426357906/10/19912015Louis Rich Company
Employee #1, a machine operator, was next to a machine fed by a conveyor belt. When the employee reached into a blind area to straighten packaged meat, she caught her finger between the metal plates at the end of the conveyor belt. The flesh was removed from one side of the finger. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Keywords: maintenance, finger, caught between, laceration, abrasion, conveyor belt, blind reaching
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 104263579 Hospitalized injury Dermatitis Packaging and filling machine operators

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