Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Keystone Foods LLC, 7220 HWY 19, CAMILLA, GEORGIA 31730
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was adjusting the belt for a breader machine when the machine's lid came down on their left hand, resulting in a partial amputation to the middle finger and hospitalization.
Hospitalized Other finger(s) n.e.c. Food and beverage processing machinery n.e.c.
An employee was performing housekeeping duties. She reached under a piece of equipment to clear some product when her left hand got caught in a motor belt, resulting in a partial amputation of the index finger.
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