105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

NORTH KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI—

Walker's Food Products

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Walker's Food Products, 506 East 12th Avenue, NORTH KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 64116 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

Final narrative

An employee was sampling product as it came out of a piston filler machine when the machine struck her fingers, resulting in the amputation of the ring and middle fingers.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Special process machinery, unspecified

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