OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221441298

OLDE THOMPSON, LLC

OXNARD, CA· 2021-09-09T00:00:00

Event: Catch Point, Caught In, Conveyor, Crushed, Engineering Controls, Food processing, Hand, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Jammed, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Pinch Point, Pinched, Production Line, Safety Device, Screw Conveyor, Thumb
NAICS: 311942
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345592760
Employer profile: OLDE THOMPSON, LLC
Summary number: 221441298
Report ID: 0950643

Event description

Employee crushes thumb while removing jammed bottle from con

Investigation abstract

At 3:20 p.m. on September 9, 2021, an employee was working as a machinery directly observe the incident. The employee was hospitalized to treat a crushed thumb. maintenance technician for a spice packaging plant. The employee and Coworker #1, also a maintenance worker, was doing walkthroughs of the packaging lines to make sure machinery and equipment was running properly. The employee noticed a bottle was stuck in the screw conveyor on a Karlville Model SleevePro 200 Development Shrink Label Automatic Applicator (Serial Number K01-0119). The top of the screw conveyor was approximately 41 inches above the floor at working level. The employee reached into the still running conveyor to remove the bottle when his right thumb caught in the machine. Coworker #2 was nearby but did not

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 42 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
519

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