Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Chobani, LLC, 669 County Road 25, NEW BERLIN, NEW YORK 13411
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was clearing a cup/foil jam on a filler when they were injured by the yogurt cup conveyor. The employee sustained lacerations to the left arm and left side and fractures to the left arm.
HospitalizedArm(s), unspecifiedSpecial process machinery, unspecified
An employee was clearing a cup jam on a cup conveyor when their left hand was caught between the conveyor and an idler roller located on another conveyor line directly above the jam. The employee received an abrasion and friction burn to the hand that required hospitalization.
An employee was training other employees on inspecting finished goods on a pallet. When he knelt down behind the pallet and used his left hand to indicate what the failed inspection point was, a riding pallet jack entered the staging area and the employee's left little finger was crushed between the end of the fork and the pallet. The distal phalanx was medically amputated.
An employee was assisting in the repositioning of an industrial freezer when their right ring fingertip became pinched between two freezers. The fingertip was amputated.
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.
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