DENTON, TEXAS—
Tetra Pak Materials LLC
Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Tetra Pak Materials LLC, 3300 Airport Road, DENTON, TEXAS 76207 on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was preparing packaging reels for slitting when reels that had been recently cut rolled off a table and struck the employee, fracturing the hip.
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GARDEN CITY, KANSAS—
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Employees were conducting an annual separator service for a customer. An engineer was replacing a sliding bowl into a separator when his left thumb was pinched between the sliding bowl and the bowl body as a crane lifted it. His thumb tip was amputated above the bone.
DENTON, TEXAS—
Tetra Pak Materials LLC
At about 12:45 a.m. on August 6, 2021, an employee was trying to dislodge paper stuck inside a rotating valve on a bagger. The blade in the valve was activated, rotated, and amputated the employee's right index and middle fingers.
SIKESTON, MISSOURI—
TETRA PAK MATERIALS, LLC
An employee was adjusting plates on a printing press and caught a finger in the gears resulting in a partial amputation to his left middle fingertip.
DENTON, TEXAS—
Tetra Pak Materials LLC
An employee was attempting to check a discharge pipe on a rotary seal machine when the employee's glove was caught by the rotary seal blade. The blade then amputated the employee's right middle fingertip.
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