Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 127027.015 - Employee's fingertips are amputated while cleaning machine

Accident Summary Nr: 127027.015 -- Report ID: 0636900 -- Event Date: 06/08/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1479194.015	06/16/2020		561311	People Ready

Abstract: At 12:30 p.m. on June 8, 2020, an employee was working for a temporary staffing employment agency. She had been assigned to work as a baker at a shop that made pastries in a size to serve individuals: turnovers. The employee was cleaning a Piemaster pie- or turnover-making machine. It was not deenergized. She hit the machine's release button, and a set of rollers closed on her left hand. The tips of the small and ring fingers on her left hand were amputated. She was hospitalized.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Baker, Bakery, Caught Between, Cleaning, Finger, Fingertip, Inexperience, Instantaneous amputation, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Roller--Mach/Part, Temporary, Temporary Employment Agency, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1479194.015	28	F	Hospitalized injury		Bakers

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