OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221466071

MARTIN'S SUPERMARKETS

ELKHART, IN· 2022-01-30T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Butcher, Contact, Cutting, Distracted, Finger, Food Handling, Grocery Store, Hand, Laceration, Machine operator, Meat Processing, Meat Slicing Machine, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Saw, Sawblade, Thumb
NAICS: 424490
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345883862
Employer profile: MARTIN'S SUPERMARKETS
Summary number: 221466071
Report ID: 0551800

Event description

Employee lacerates thumb while cutting meat, later amputated

Investigation abstract

At 1:45 p.m. on January 30, 2022, an employee was cutting meat when he looked away from the machine. The employee made contact with saw blade and lacerated his right thumb. The thumb was surgically amputated at the hospital, where he was treated and released the same day.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 34 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
686

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