Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 139009.015 - Employee amputates finger when caught in meat packaging mach

Accident Summary Nr: 139009.015 -- Report ID: 0521700 -- Event Date: 08/20/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1552399.015	09/10/2021		311612	Ed Miniat Llc

Abstract: At 9:30 p.m. on August 20, 2021, an employee working as a machine operator for a meat processing plant was operating a CP Packaging Roll Stock 104 bag forming machine packaging meat. The process involved inserting five pounds of meat into 9-inch by 9-inch trays in the loading and scaling section of the machine. The employee caught his right hand in the bag former. He received medical care without hospitalization for a deep laceration to his ring finger and a partial amputation to his middle finger.

Keywords: Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Finger, Food processing, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Laceration, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Meat Processing, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Packaging, Packaging Machine, Packaging Machinery, Partial Amputation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Traumatic Amputation

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1552399.015	58	M	Non Hospitalized injury

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