Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at TREEHOUSE FOODS, INC., 1820 N. Josey Ln., CARROLLTON, TEXAS 75006
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was trying to unjam a case of product in the palletizing machine when the machine cycled and a metal bar came down and fractured his arm. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.
An employee was using a prybar to unjam a pallet that was stuck on a conveyor when the wood in the pallet gave way and caused the employee to lose his balance and fall backwards. He rolled his left ankle and broke it, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was pouring flour into a vat. The bucket slipped from the employee's hand and fell into the vat. The employee tried to pull the bucket out of the vat and suffered a left ring fingertip amputation when the finger was caught between the lip of the vat and the bucket.
An employee was clearing the pie chunker of loose debris. A blade energized while his left arm was in the machine resulting in amputation between the shoulder and elbow.
Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.
An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.
An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 311824)
An employee got off a work platform to move empty pallets off the platform and onto the floor while a forklift driver was operating directly across from them and putting pallets up on an opposite platform. The forklift struck the employee as he was bringing down a pallet horizontally. The employee was pinned between the forklift and pallet, causing traumatic rhabdomyolysis to the employee's upper left thigh. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was operating a motorized tugger when he fell from the tugger to the floor. He was hospitalized with a brain bleed that required surgery and an injury to the left hand.
An employee was applying a hoist hook to the I-bolt on a die plate when their right ring fingertip became pinched between the hook swivel and the bolt, resulting in an amputation/avulsion.
An employee was using a magnet in the waste bin while cleaning the metal. The employee walked the magnet to the other side of the line, then placed the magnet on a metal surface which caught their hands between the metal and the magnet, resulting in amputation of the middle fingertip.
An employee was operating a food packaging line that places a shrink sleeve band over the top of a plastic bottle. The rollers on the equipment jammed and the machine stopped. As the employee went to pull the shrink wrap down, the knife was triggered and contacted the employee's left thumb resulting in a partial amputation.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.