Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Perdue Farms, Inc, 1155 Candler Road, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA 30507
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was replacing wall panels in the maintenance shop. While the employee was removing one of the wall panels, a panel fell on the employee's left hand.
An employee was rinsing out a batter machine. He went to clear a piece of meat on the inlet of the pump when his fingertip was amputated. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery.
An employee was hanging chickens on shackles in the evisceration department. While removing a chicken from a hook, the employee's finger was lacerated by a double leg shackle resulting in a partial amputation.
A maintenance employee was repairing a conveyor belt sheave on an offal pump. His right hand middle finger was caught when removing the belt resulting in amputation. The machine was locked out/tagged out at the time.
While spraying a runaround conveyor machine with a pressure washer, an employee noticed something on the conveyor belt. The employee was attempting to remove the object when the employee's hand was caught between the belt and a moving sprocket. The employee suffered a right arm fracture and tissue damage.
An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.
An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.
The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.
Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.
An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.
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