OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691063
LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SALT LAKE CITY, UT·
Event description
FINGERS SEVERED IN CHOPPER-GRINDER MACHINE
Investigation abstract
ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 7, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS USING A HOBART CHOPPER-GRINDER MACHINE TO GRIND UP HARD, STALE CHUNKS OF BREAD. THE MACHINE WAS PROPERLY GUARDE D BY A "DOME" COVERING WHICH COMPLETELY ENCLOSED THE CUTTING BLADE. THE MACHINE WAS TESTED AND FOUND TO BE INOPERABLE UNLESS THE GUARD WAS, NOT ONLY IN PLACE, B UT TIGHTENED DOWN. EMPLOYEE #1 STATED THAT A LARGE SLICE OF BREAD BECAME STUCK I N THE GRINDER OPENING AND WOULD NOT FEED THROUGH. SHE THEN PUSHED THE CHUNK THRO UGH WITH HER RIGHT HAND. THE CHUNK, ALONG WITH HER RIGHT HAND, BROKE THROUGH INT O THE CUTTING AREA. HER ENTIRE LITTLE, RING AND MIDDLE FINGERS, AND THE TIP OF H ER INDEX FINGER, WERE AMPUTATED.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 41 F
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 439
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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