OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14570501
AMPUTATED,FINGER,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY,THUMB,ROLLER--MACH/PART,INEXPERIENCE,NIP POINT
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated in dough machine rollers
Investigation abstract
On July 31, 1987, Employee #1, age 17, was working on a bread line. His assigned tasks were to put flour on the sides of the dough to keep it from sticking to t he conveyor, to check the dough quality to make sure the Rondo dough machine was operating at the proper speed, and to help keep the machine feeding dough. The machine had shut down temporarily and the dough sat in the hopper on top of it. When the machine was started, Employee #1 pushed the dough down into the hopper, as he had seen other employees do. His fingers became caught in the rollers and his fingers, thumb and finger knuckles were amputated.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 17 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 779
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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