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Amputations

1 amputation · 2017099063 · 9/21/2017 · Blue Bell Creameries

Severity

Hospitalized
0
Amputation
1
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury
Amputations

Cause

Event
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source
Bottling, canning, filling machinery

Employer

Name
Blue Bell Creameries
Location
8201 E HWY 51, BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA, 74014
NAICS
311520
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

The injured employee was drying off excess sanitation water from the bottom of the nest plates on a filling machine. Her hand was next to the mechanism that lifts the cups out of the nest plates, referred to as the "lift pad." The lift pad pushed her right ring finger up into the hole as the nest plate was rotating smashing her finger and resulting in amputation of the fingertip and nail.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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