DECATUR, ALABAMA—
Wayne Farms LLC
Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wayne Farms LLC, 254 Ipsco Street, DECATUR, ALABAMA 35601 on — Fractures, affecting the upper arm(s).
Final narrative
An employee was removing meat from a carcass and tossing the meat onto a conveyor. When he reached through the moving cone line to retrieve a misplaced carcass, the carcass/cone caught their upper left arm and rammed it into a COVID-19 barrier pole. The employee's humerus was fractured.
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