OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221432917

JULIA'S BAKERY, INC.

ORANGE, CT· 2022-01-31T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Chute, Clogged, Engineering Controls, Finger, Food processing, Glove, Grinder, Lack of Engineering Controls, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Nip Point, Partial Amputation, Pulled In, Rotating Parts
NAICS: 311811
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345756126
Employer profile: JULIA'S BAKERY, INC.
Summary number: 221432917
Report ID: 0111500

Event description

Employee amputates finger when caught in spinning food grind

Investigation abstract

At 11:20 p.m. on January 31, 2022, an employee who was wearing vinyl gloves was using both hands to apply pressure against a handle. The handle pushes frozen cake chunks down a chute and towards the face of a rotating shredding disk. The employee raised the pusher and looked down into the chute where she saw pieces of cake at the bottom that were not pushed into the shredder. The employee proceeded to use the back of her left hand to push the frozen cake into the rotating shredder. The employee's finger was pulled into a nip point by the rotating disk amputating her middle finger to the second knuckle and requiring hospitalization.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 27 F

Event type
2

Occupation code
439

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