Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221444540

PEARSON FOODS CORPORATION

Event
Amputated, Amputation, Blade, Finger, Food Preparation, Food service, Rotating Parts
NAICS
424480
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345828875
Employer profile
PEARSON FOODS CORPORATION
Summary number
221444540
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Employee sustains fingertip amputation on dicer machine

Investigation abstract

At approximately 12:30 p.m. on February 10, 2022, an employee completed a production run on the butternut squash line and started cleaning it. The employee opened the door for the dicer machine, and the employee's hand contacted the rotating blade. The employee sustained an amputation to the right middle and ring finger at the base of the nail bed and the tips of the index and pinky fingers. The employee was treated without hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 42 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    444

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