Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Martin's Famous Pastry Shoppe, Inc., 2000 Potato Roll Lane, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA 31601
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was repositioning the de-panner infeed belt on the oven. Their left ring finger was caught in the belt resulting in a laceration, nail loss, and partial amputation.
Amputation Other finger(s) n.e.c. Food and beverage processing machinery n.e.c.
More severe injuries at Martin's Famous Pastry Shoppe, Inc.
An employee was lifting an oven conveyor belt to put it back onto a sprocket when the belt pulled his right hand into the sprocket. The employee sustained an amputation of his index fingertip.
A palletizer machine malfunctioned, causing a backup in the box stacker. An employee was removing boxes from the line manually when their left middle finger got caught underneath a belt and the distal portion of the finger was amputated.
An employee was maneuvering a pallet jack. The employee's little finger was crushed between the pallet jack's handle and a concrete bollard. Part of the finger was amputated.
The employee was preparing to clean the stale roller. The employee was manually moving a belt and pulley when his fingers became pinched between them resulting in lacerations and amputation of the right pinky finger.
An employee was troubleshooting a blockage in a dry mix unloading machine. As he was removing a flexible coupling, his finger was lacerated by a rotary air lock fin. He suffered a partial amputation of the right-hand middle finger above the first joint.
Two employees were setting up a mandrel in the spindle of a machine. The mandrel was side-shifted while an employee's hand was on the mast of a powered industrial truck. The employee suffered crushing injuries that resulted in amputations to the middle and ring fingertips.
An employee was working to remove a product blockage from a piece of equipment. The employee was struck by a metal bar near the deck of the pin mixer equipment and sustained blunt force trauma to the torso.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 311812)
An employee (who had recently walked through water accumulated on the floor) slipped and fell to the floor. The employee suffered a broken right wrist and right elbow and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was performing maintenance on a production line, requiring a testing and positioning phase for the whipped cream dispensers. The employee was positioning the dispensers using wrenches when one of the sensors was triggered by the pie pans coming down the line. The depositor heads lowered and pinched the employee's left ring finger, resulting in an amputated fingertip. The whipped cream dispensers were not guarded at the time and the line was not locked out/tagged out.
During a line changeover, an employee was rinsing a depositor with water. The employee was working to remove a piece of chocolate, stuck in the machine's roller, when the roller's moving parts caught his middle finger. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip with bone loss.
An employee was emptying a trash can into a dumpster. He tripped while turning around, fell over a rail onto the concrete floor, and broke bones in his back and wrist.
During a changeover, an employee was wiping down the dough chunker machine and the chunker closed on his left hand. The employee sustained crushing/laceration injuries, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.
During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.
An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.