Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified — VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA

AMPUTATION — Worker suffered amputation at Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC in VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA
Employer Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC Report ID 2024010272
Address 833 14th Street SW City, State ZIP VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA 58072
Event Date January 11, 2024 Outcome Amputation
Nature of Injury Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified Body Part Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
Event Type Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing Source of Injury Special process machinery unspecified
Secondary Source Valves, nozzles
Industry (NAICS) 424510 Inspection #
GPS Coordinates 46.91000, -98.03000

Incident Narrative

An employee was cleaning a dump hopper when his finger was caught in the air lock, which resulted in the amputation of his right index fingertip.

Incident Summary

On January 11, 2024, a worker at Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC in VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA suffered amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified to the finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s). The incident was classified as struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing, with special process machinery unspecified identified as the source of injury. The worker was amputation.

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