Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Koch Foods of Gadsden, LLC, 501 Paden Rd, GADSDEN, ALABAMA 35903
on — Fractures, affecting the forearm(s).
Final narrative
An employee was stacking 40-pound boxes of chicken leg quarters. A rotating hose clamp below the guard/conveyor on a conveyor belt caught the employee's smock sleeve and pulled his left arm down at an angle, breaking the forearm.
HospitalizedForearm(s)Conveyors-belt
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