Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at JCG Industries, Inc. dba Koch Foods, 4404 W Berteau Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60641
on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was fixing the chain on a tape machine when their fingers were caught between the chain and sprocket. The employee received a laceration to the left hand and broken fingers.
An employee was walking in the box room to retrieve unassembled boxes. He tripped over a plastic quarter pallet that was staged for storage and fell. The employee was hospitalized with injury to his knees and buttocks.
An employee was cleaning and scraping meat off a machine when her gloved hand became caught in the conveyor, resulting in a left little finger amputation.
A maintenance employee was troubleshooting a packing machine. As the employee reached underneath the machine, the machine jaws closed on the employee's finger, resulting in a thumb amputation.
An employee was spraying a conveyor with water as part of the sanitation process when the employee contacted a sprocket on the conveyor, suffering a flesh wound to the right arm.
An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.
An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.
An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.
An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.
An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 311615)
An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.
An employee was troubleshooting a thigh deboner on a poultry processing line. As he worked to dislodge a thigh bone caught in the blade mechanism, the machine amputated the first and second digits on his left hand. He was hospitalized.
On September 25, 2025, an employee was exiting a yard truck. They slipped and fell approximately 3 feet from the top tread of the steps to the concrete below. The employee sustained a fractured left hip.
An employee was operating a stand-up forklift, picking product for an order. The forklift struck a metal rack and the employee's left arm was caught between the forklift and the rack. He was hospitalized with a fracture to the neck of his radius and an open fracture to the olecranon (elbow).
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.