OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221394232

HANNAFORD BROS. CO., LLC

HIGHLAND, NY· 2021-09-20T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Bandsaw, Butcher, Caught By, Finger, Fingertip, Food Handling, Grocery Store, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Meat Processing, Meat Slicing Machine, Partial Amputation, Pulled In, Saw, Sawblade, Thumb, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 445110
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345543425
Employer profile: HANNAFORD BROS. CO., LLC
Summary number: 221394232
Report ID: 0213100

Event description

Employee amputates thumb tip when pulled into bandsaw sawbla

Investigation abstract

At 1:00 p.m. on September 20, 2021, an employee working for a grocery store was cutting bone-in pork loins steaks with a bandsaw. The employee was cutting an approximately 10-inch-long piece of meat when the sawblade pulled the meat into the sawblade taking his right hand with it. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputation to his thumb tip.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 39 M

Event type
2

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