OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14457998
GOETZES CANDY COMPANY INC
BALTO, MD—
Event description
Employee's finger broken when caught by feed belt
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating boat machine #10 in an area where candy was processed. The candy was first laid out in a circle on a table and then fed automatically into a machine that cut it into small pieces. The candy then came down onto a ro tating turntable and the operator, as part of normal procedure, held it back wit h his or her hands to allow the turntable to fill up. Employee #1's right little finger was broken when it became caught between the turntable and a metal feed belt that traveled alongside it. She had been operating the boat machine for ten years.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 46 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 79
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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