Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at National Beef Packing Company, LLC, 2000 E. Trail St., DODGE CITY, KANSAS 67801
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was shackling cows at the shackling station when his right thumb was caught in a shackle and he sustained an amputation to the thumb tip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Butchering machinery
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