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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

DFA Dairy Brands Ice Cream, LLC

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at DFA Dairy Brands Ice Cream, LLC, 630 Meadow St., BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS 61008 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was replacing a chain on a stacking equipment machine for an ice cream filler. The interlock door in the machine closed, re-energizing the machine. Three of the employee's left hand fingertips were amputated.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Bottling, canning, filling machinery

DFA Dairy Brands Ice Cream, LLC

An employee was unjamming cookie dough from a machine when the rotating pump caught her left index and ring fingers, resulting in fingertip amputations.

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An employee was changing a saw blade when the saw machine activated. The employee's left ring and little fingers were amputated.

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An employee was clearing a jam from the label cutting machine when their left middle finger was partially amputated.

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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.

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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.

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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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An employee was using an end mill to mill out a section of a metal door frame that he was fabricating. Metal shavings built up and he could not see the marking to cut, so he used a small brush to remove the shavings. While brushing off the shavings, his glove became caught in the spinning mill bit and pulled his hand in. The employee's right index finger contacted the spinning bit, resulting in a partial amputation to the side of the finger.

DFA Dairy Brands Ice Cream, LLC

An employee was unjamming cookie dough from a machine when the rotating pump caught her left index and ring fingers, resulting in fingertip amputations.

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An employee was marking a malfunctioning mold when their finger got caught between one section of rollers on the mold and the guarding on the next section of rollers. The employee's finger was amputated below the nailbed.

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An employee was exiting the rear door of a freezer truck when he slipped/misstepped and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a broken right leg that required surgery.

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An employee was palletizing ice cream when his fingers got caught in a chain and sprocket, resulting in amputations of the middle and ring fingers.

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An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

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An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

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An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

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An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

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A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.