Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at DeIorio's Foods, Inc., 2200 Bleecker Street, UTICA, NEW YORK 13501
on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
A sanitation employee was cleaning a dough cruncher/roller machine when two fingers on his right hand were amputated between the nail and knuckle. At the time of the incident, the blade was not in the machine, but the machine was running.
HospitalizedAmputationFinger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
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