Gored or rammed by animal · Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Seaboard Foods LLC, 1751 Road 39, OPTIMA, OKLAHOMA 73945
on — Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk, affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was loading hogs onto a trailer. After they were loaded, he was pinning the gate when one of the hogs charged and pinned the employee between the gate and the wall. The employee sustained a collapsed lung.
HospitalizedChest, except internal location of diseases or disordersSwine and other porcines
An employee was working at the base of a chute that was dispensing processed pig feet into a container. The employee was retrieving the feet and packaging them in boxes. As she turned and stepped back to pick up an empty box, she stepped onto the edge of a tub under the chute, lost her balance, and fell to the concrete floor. Her left femur was broken near the hip. She was hospitalized.
An employee was walking on the production floor when they slipped on a piece of animal fat and fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left ankle and required surgery.
An employee was placing a loin back into the hopper with a small meat hook. The meat got stuck in the conveyor belt, which pulled his right index finger into the hopper door and his right index fingertip was amputated.
An employee was loading an animal carcass into a skid loader bucket and placed his left foot onto the loader for leverage. The bucket was then activated, causing the employee's foot to become caught in a pinch point and injured.
An employee entered a pen in the maternity barn to bottle-feed a calf. A cow spun around and head butted the employee into the metal enclosure fence three times. The employee sustained a punctured liver.
An employee was moving cattle when they were rammed by a cow. The employee sustained fractures to their L2 and L5 vertebrae, left sacral wing, and pelvis. They also suffered internal hemorrhaging in the abdominal.
An employee was moving cattle from a pen to a tub when a bull got around the cattle guard. The employee climbed over the cattle guard to move away from the bull and the bull struck his arm, resulting in a fracture.
An employee was driving cattle in a pen corral. The employee climbed up a pen rail to keep from being rammed by an aggressive cow. The cow's horns caught his boot and pulled him to the ground inside the pen. He suffered fractures to the left tibia and fibula, as well as an injured left shoulder.
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