OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221435282

EASTSIDE PACKING INC.

REEDLEY, CA· 2021-12-04T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Belt Conveyor, Caught In, Cleaning, Conveyor, Conveyor Belt, Elevated Work Plat, Elevated Work Platform, Finger, Fingertip, Food processing, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Machine operator, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pinched, Supervision
NAICS: 493120
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345708523
Employer profile: EASTSIDE PACKING INC.
Summary number: 221435282
Report ID: 0950625

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip in unguarded conveyor belt

Investigation abstract

At 6:30 p.m. on December 4, 2021, an employee was cleaning sorting equipment at a fruit sorting and packaging facility. The employee had used a ladder to reach an unguarded elevated platform approximately one foot wide by four to six foot long above a running conveyor belt. The employee caught his right hand in the belt and incurred an amputation to his ring fingertip. The employee required medical treatment without hospitalization for the amputation and subsequent bone loss.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 34 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
7026

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