OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221374143
CJ FOODS MANUFACTURING BEAUMONT CORP.
BEAUMONT, CA·
Event description
Employee sustains finger amputation while unjamming rice fro
Investigation abstract
At 1:45 p.m. on July 16, 2021, Employee #1 was unjamming rice from the bottom of a rice stand-by tank feeding rice to a rice cooking machine. The employee used his bare hand without deenergizing the rotating blades at the bottom of the tank. While unjamming the rice, the employee's right middle finger made contact with the rotating blades, resulting in amputation of the fingertip. The employee was transported to Riverside University Health and hospitalized.
Victim
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 21 M
- Event type
- 2
- Occupation code
- 779
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.