Abstract: At approximately 8:25 a.m. on September 17, 2013, Employee #1, a 52-year-old female full time employee with Juanita's Food, a distributor and manufacturer of Mexican foods to food service and customers, was operating a fill machine. Employee #1 was operating the line of #10 corn filer machine in the plant's processing area. As empty cans traveled down the line's conveyor belt towards the fill machine, Employee #1 would be required to place additional empty cans onto the belt so as to prevent the filling machine to deliver product to a discharge telescope which did not have an empty can underneath it. As Employee #1 placed an empty can onto the conveyor belt her gloved left hand got caught on an arm of the filling machine's rotating transfer star. As the rotating star rotated towards the filling machine's rotating table top, Employee #1's caught left hand was pulled into the filling machine, between the filling machine's transfer star arm and the framework of the filling machine, crushing her left hand and wrist. With Employee #1's left hand stuck between the filling machine's transfer star arm and the frame work of the filling machine, Employee #1 stopped the filling machine by hitting the filling machine's Emergency Stop Button. Coworkers in the immediate area freed Employee #1's left hand from the filling machine by removing the transfer star from the filling machine and summoned Emergency Medical Services. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded and transported Employee #1 to Saint Mary's in Long Beach, California where she was treated for the lacerations to her left hand, placed her left hand in a cast and referred her to Western Hand in Long Beach. At Western Hand Employee #1 underwent surgery for her left hand and wrist. The surgery included the placement of a metal plate in the wrist area.