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Amputations

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2022032321 · 3/15/2022 · Wonton Food Corporation

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
1
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury
Amputations

Cause

Event
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source
Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery

Employer

Name
Wonton Food Corporation
Location
10631 Corporate Drive, STAFFORD, TEXAS, 77477
NAICS
311824
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

A machine operator was monitoring fortune cookies at they came out of molds. The wrapping machine used to package the cookies stopped after becoming jammed with plastic film. The machine operator had restarted the machine and begun clearing the jam when his right hand contacted the rotating blades that cut the film packaging. He suffered lacerations to the middle finger as well as a partial amputation of the ring finger.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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