Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221479298

HILLTOP RANCH, INC.

Event
Amputation, Caught Between, Conveyor, Crushing, Fingertip, Forklift, Hand, Ind Trk Operator, Pallet
NAICS
111336
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#345804827
Employer profile
HILLTOP RANCH, INC.
Summary number
221479298
Report ID
0950624

Event description

Employee suffers fingertip amputation when pallet conveyor m

Investigation abstract

At 7:45 a.m. on February 8, 2022, an employee was unloading fumigation chambers at an almond processing facility using a forklift. The employee noticed that the pallet conveyor was malfunctioning. The injured worker got off his forklift and attempted to wipe off the sensor, but the pallets still did not advance. As he turned away, the pallet conveyor moved and a pallet crushed his right hand. The employee was hospitalized to treat a right ring fingertip amputation.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 62 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    856

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