OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221390099

ED MINIAT LLC

SOUTH HOLLAND, IL· 2021-08-20T00:00:00

Event: 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
NAICS: 311612
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345523997
Employer profile: ED MINIAT LLC
Summary number: 221390099
Report ID: 0521700

Event description

Employee amputates finger when caught in meat packaging mach

Investigation 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.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 58 M

Event type
2

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