OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221441884
PRO-FORM LABORATORIES LLC
BENICIA, CA·
Event description
Employee's fingertips are amputated when blender lid falls
Investigation abstract
At 9:30 a.m. on February 24, 2022, an employee was working as a quality assurance inspector for a firm that manufactured pharmaceutical preparations. He was cleaning a Ross model 4NT 5S ribbon blender. His right hand was on the edge of the blender's mixing trough. The blender's stainless-steel lid fell closed onto the worker's right hand, trapping it against the edge of the mixing trough. The employee suffered the amputation of the fingertips of the first and second fingers of his right hand. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Event type
- 2
- Occupation code
- 7040
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