OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221435761

PACIFICA PERSONNEL, INC.

NIPOMO, CA· 2022-01-26T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Blade, Bypass Guard, Clearing, Contact, Cutting, Farm, Finger, Jammed, Migrant Farm Worker
NAICS: 115115
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345771547
Employer profile: PACIFICA PERSONNEL, INC.
Summary number: 221435761
Report ID: 0950647

Event description

Employee amputates fingers in mower blade

Investigation abstract

At 11:45 a.m. on January 26, 2022, an employee was using a machine to cut the tops off seedlings at a client site of a farm labor contractor. The employee was mowing the plants by feeding trays containing the plants into a stationary mower via a conveyor belt when a tray got stuck. The employee lifted the guard to remove a struck tray which had caused the mower blade to stop. When the employee removed the tray, the blade started to rotate and amputated the employees fingers. The employee was hospitalized to treat amputations of his left middle and index fingers.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
889

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