Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Tyson Foods, Inc., 5000 N FM 1912, AMARILLO, TEXAS 79108
on — Fractures , affecting the Arm(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning the head splitter machine and sustained a broken left arm.
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An employee was unloading cattle from a pen to the main drive alley. While the employee was inside the pen, a cow rammed her and knocked her down. The employee sustained a contusion to her right upper torso and three fractured ribs.
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