OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #890731
CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY
SALISBURY, MD·
Event description
Employee's fingertip amputated in onion dispenser
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating an onion dispenser on a production line where frozen T e and was amputated. V dinners are manufactured. She was using a plastic handheld scoop to move pearl onions out of a box and into the dispenser. The bottom plate of the dispenser h ad six holes through which the onions dropped onto a dinner plate that was passi ng on a conveyor line below. The bottom plate revolves continuously and a shear point is created by a metal bar that holds the onions back so that they drop dow n into the holes on the plastic disc plate. The employee had her right hand in t he dispenser breaking up some frozen onions that were stuck together when the ti p of her index finger went down into one of the holes on the revolving disc plat
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 F
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 799
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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