FREDERICKSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA—
Farmers Pride, Inc.
Collapse, engulfment building or structure · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Farmers Pride, Inc., 520 Chestnut Hill Road, FREDERICKSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17026 on — Fractures , affecting the Trunk and other lower extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was overseeing the feeding of chicks in the chick hatchery. The feed piping became clogged, causing it to spill over onto the ceiling. The ceiling collapsed and struck the employee. The employee sustained broken vertebrae and a broken femur.
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An employee was using a de-boning machine on chicken legs when the rotating punch on the machine caught their glove and finger, resulting in amputation of their right index finger to the first knuckle.
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