Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bright Harvest Sweet Potato Company, 509 E Taylor Rd, CLARKSVILLE, ARKANSAS 72830
on , Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee turned off an auger at the bottom of a ribbon blender to find pieces of a plastic bucket lift that had broken and fallen into the ribbon blender. The employee went around and had opened the drain cover of the auger to retrieve the pieces when the auger activated and amputated the employee's left thumb. The auger was not locked out/tagged out at the time.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
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