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Kraft Heinz Foods Company

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning — Amputations — DOVER, DELAWARE

AMPUTATION — Worker suffered amputation at Kraft Heinz Foods Company in DOVER, DELAWARE
Employer Kraft Heinz Foods Company Report ID 2019088988
Address 1250 W North St City, State ZIP DOVER, DELAWARE 19904
Event Date August 29, 2019 Outcome Amputation
Nature of Injury Amputations Body Part Fingertip(s)
Event Type Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning Source of Injury Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
Industry (NAICS) 311999 Inspection # 1427412
GPS Coordinates 39.14000, -75.54000

Incident Narrative

An employee was using an industrial size dust collector (vacuum) to clear out a packaging machine. The employee's hand became caught in a turning valve roll in the packaging machine, resulting in the amputation of the right index and middle fingertips. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

Incident Summary

On August 29, 2019, a worker at Kraft Heinz Foods Company in DOVER, DELAWARE suffered amputations to the fingertip(s). The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning, with packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery identified as the source of injury. The worker was amputation.

Context

OSHA has recorded 5,298 severe injury reports involving "Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning" incidents in our database. Browse all Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning injuries.

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