BAKERHILL, ALABAMA—
Equity Group Eufaula Division, LLC
Contact with hot objects or substances · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Equity Group Eufaula Division, LLC, 57 Melvin Clark Road, BAKERHILL, ALABAMA 36027 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the multiple body parts, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was working at a tank in the fryer room when cooking oil and water mixed, causing a reaction that created pressure and made the lid come off the tank. The employee's right-side body was burned by the oil and water overflow.
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EUFAULA, ALABAMA—
Equity Group Eufaula Division, LLC
An employee was hooking up a flatbed trailer to a pickup truck. While letting the hitch down onto the receiver ball, the hitch became bound. The employee jostled the hitch pin while continuing to let the jack stand down. The hitch slipped while the employee's fingertip was in the safety pin hole, causing a fingertip amputation.
EUFAULA, ALABAMA—
Equity Group Eufaula Division, LLC
An employee suffered a laceration to the left palm and amputation of the left thumb while using a saddle saw.
BAKERHILL, ALABAMA—
Equity Group Eufaula Division, LLC
An employee was attempting to clear a product jam on a breader machine's conveyor belt when he suffered lacerations to his first left-hand finger.
BAKERHILL, ALABAMA—
Equity Group Eufaula Division, LLC
An employee was cleaning up the area when he noticed a piece of meat on the frame of an overhead saw (tail cutter). The employee reached up to get the meat but contacted the blade instead, amputating his left index fingertip.
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