Coffee and Tea Manufacturing

NarrativeAt 10:07 a.m. on January 8, 2018, an employee was sweeping the floor near pallets stacked four high. Each pallet contained 20 bags of espresso beans that weighed 150 lbs each. A coworker had just completed placing the fourth pallet onto the other three pallets by using a forklift, when the stack of pallets and bags of beans fell onto the employee, killing him.

NarrativeAt 6:30 a.m. on November 9, 2017, an employee was working for a temporary employment agency. The agency had assigned her work for a firm that produced herbal teas. She had been cleaning an IMA Model Number C50 tea bagging machine. She was threading tea bag paper into the machine with her hand. After bypassing the interlocking doors, the employee was realigning the tea bag paper in the machine. She was using a jog function. In this setting, the machine ran at a reduced operating speed. It was not technically a jog function, as it ran way too fast to be a jog function. She had her hand on the paper. Her hand was drawn into a paper cutter. She sustained the amputation of her middle and index fingers on her right hand. She was hospitalized. Note: There are two files with the investigation number 100831. One report is from the herbal teas firm and the other is from the temporary employment agency. The narrative is the same for both.

NarrativeAt 6:30 a.m. on November 9, 2017, an employee was working for a temporary employment agency. The agency had assigned her work for a firm that produced herbal teas. She had been cleaning an IMA Model Number C50 tea bagging machine. She was threading tea bag paper into the machine with her hand. After bypassing the interlocking doors, the employee was realigning the tea bag paper in the machine. She was using a jog function. In this setting, the machine ran at a reduced operating speed. It was not technically a jog function, as it ran way too fast to be a jog function. She had her hand on the paper. Her hand was drawn into a paper cutter. She sustained the amputation of her middle and index fingers on her right hand. She was hospitalized. Note: There are two files with the investigation number 100831. One report is from the herbal teas firm and the other is from the temporary employment agency. The narrative is the same for both.