OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221455694
FAREWAY STORES, INC.
MANCHESTER, IA·
Event description
Grocery worker's fingertip is caught in belt and amputated
Investigation abstract
At 4:43 p.m. on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, an employee was working for a regional chain of supermarkets. She was fourteen years old. She was standing next to coworkers at a checkout counter, or checkstand, in one the chain's stores. The tip of the small finger on her right hand became caught in the checkstand belt. She suffered an injury to the fingertip and distal (second) joint of that finger. She was hospitalized. Her fingertip was amputated.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 14 F
- Event type
- 2
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