OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221396187

LA QUERCIA LLC

NORWALK, IA· 2021-09-15T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Blade, Finger, Fingertip, Food processing, Hand, Installing, Instantaneous amputation, Knuckle, Lack of Work Procedures, Loading, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Meat Processing, Partial Amputation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Struck By, Technician, Thermoformer, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 311612
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345536825
Employer profile: LA QUERCIA LLC
Summary number: 221396187
Report ID: 0751910

Event description

Employee partially amputates finger when struck by machine b

Investigation abstract

At 7:30 a.m. on September 15, 2021, an employee working as a maintenance technician for a meat plant was in setting up an Ulna Model TF-Mini 320F Thermoforming Machine (Serial Number 8020453) for production. As the employee was loading a roll of film, the transversal cut blade activated. This allowed the blade to move vertically towards the blade guard and strike the employee in the left hand. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputated index finger to the first knuckle.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 47 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
519

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