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Accident: 958769 - Employee'S Hand Injured By Blender Cutter Blades

Accident: 958769 -- Report ID: 0950624 -- Event Date: 11/06/1992
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
11189092712/08/19922022Leprino Foods
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on November 6, 1992, Employee #1, of Leprino Foods, was working in the quality control lab, grinding control samples of cheese using an 8-speed Oster blender, quart size jar. Apparently, the jar was not secured to the threaded container base unit. As the blender was turned on, Employee #1 held the jar with her right hand on top. The blender rocked the jar back and forth to make slurry. The blender jar slipped off the gasketed blender base. Employee #1 attempted to grab the bottom of the jar and her left hand contacted the rotating blender cutter blades. She sustained multiple lacerations of the left hand with skin loss and possible laceration of both digital arteries and nerves. She was hospitalized.
Keywords: unsecured, mixer, slip, struck against, laceration, artery, blade, hand
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 111890927 Hospitalized injury Dislocation Occupation not reported

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