Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Flowers Baking Company Of Lenexa, 8960 Marshall Dr, LENEXA, KANSAS 66215
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was lowering the frame of the bread rounder back into place on the conveyor and pinched their right thumb resulting in amputation of the thumb.
AmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
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An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.
An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.
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An employee was trying to remove bread from an outer slicer blade. She swiped at the debris and her left index finger contacted the outside bread slicer blade, amputating her left index fingertip.
An employee was working with a depositor machine when the employee's index finger contacted the depositor, amputating it from the fingertip to the knuckle. The machine was unguarded at the time.
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