Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Koch Meat Co., Inc dba Koch Foods, 2153 Rose Street, FRANKLIN PARK, ILLINOIS 60131
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was clearing a jam after changing the top film roll of a packaging machine when the blade at the outfeed amputated their left index fingertip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
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