A 15-year-old part-time worker (the victim) at a retail grocery store suffered amputation of the right arm as a result of being caught by the auger of a meat grinder while he was reassembling it. The victim, working after school, had completed washing and cleaning the disassembled parts of the grinder and was reassembling it without de-energizing and locking out the machine's power supply. He inserted the auger into the grinder's housing and reached through the feed-throat with his right hand to guide it into engagement. As he did so, he bumped against the unprotected on/off lever switch mounted about […]
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