OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #828525
WILSON FOOD CORPORATION
CHEROKEE, IA·
Event description
Employee's fingers crushed by pork product bagging machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a pork product bagging machine. During setup, the plas tic film was not feeding through properly. The machine was equipped with a guard that covered all blades and moving equipment and was interlocked with an emerge ncy stop button. The only opening into the machine was where the full bags of pr oduct exited. Employee #1 reached through this opening between the straight blad es and attempted to straighten the plastic film before the other cut-off blades cycled. His hand was caught by the knives, which are pushed by 3,000 psi into th e plastic, and his forefingers were crushed. One forefinger was reattached surgi cally. No pork product was in the machine at the time of the accident.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 779
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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