Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221491806

WAYNE-SANDERSON FARMS

Event
Arm, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Caught By, Conveyor, Fracture, Meat Processing, Production Line, Struck By
NAICS
311615
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#346176092
Employer profile
WAYNE-SANDERSON FARMS
Summary number
221491806
Report ID
0418300

Event description

Employee fractures arm on production line

Investigation abstract

At 2:55 p.m. on August 18, 2022, an employee was removing breast meat from a passing carcass and tossing the breast onto a conveyor. The employee reached through the moving cone line to retrieve a misplaced carcass when the carcass rammed his arm into a COVID-19 barrier pole. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left arm.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 21 M

    Event type
    6
    Occupation code
    0

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