FITZGERALD, GEORGIA—
American Blanching Company
Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at American Blanching Company, 155 Rip Wiley Road, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA 31750 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).
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Final narrative
An employee's left hand was caught by the butterfly valve inside a bulk line sugar feeder. The machine amputated his index, middle, and ring fingertips at the first knuckle.
More severe injuries at American Blanching Company
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA—
American Blanching Company
An employee attempted to remove a waste pan from a rack in the blanching area when the pan tipped and caught her finger between the pan and the rack. The employee's left middle fingertip was amputated.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA—
American Blanching Company
An employee was removing plastic elevator buckets from the tops of pallets of empty tote bags. As the employee came down from the pallets (42 inches off the floor), his foot caught the edge of a pallet and he fell to the concrete floor on his left side, with a bucket under him. The employee sustained a lacerated kidney and was hospitalized.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA—
American Blanching Company
An employee was retrieving a test sample from an ingredient feeder when her right thumb made contact with the auger screw of the feeder. Her right thumb was caught between the screw and the auger housing, resulting in a digit amputation of the right thumb.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA—
American Blanching Company
An employee was manually stuffing a tote liner inside the torn opening of a sack full of peanuts that was positioned on a pallet on the ground when another sack stacked on top of the sack the employee was stuffing fell on and pinned him against the ground. He sustained a right ankle fracture and lumbar (L5) vertebrae fracture.
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