Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ole' Mexican Foods, Inc., 4441 Logistic Dr., DALLAS, TEXAS 75241
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Arm(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was clearing an obstruction in a conveyor when his arm was pulled into the rollers of the conveyor. He suffered lacerations to the left arm and was hospitalized.
An employee was inserting corn tortillas into a corn cutting machine. The machine's air piston released and came down onto her left thumb, resulting in an amputation.
An employee was entering a trailer in a docking area when a driver moved the trailer forward and the employee fell between the dock and the trailer. The driver moved the trailer back into place and the employee became pinned, resulting in multiple fractures to their spine, pelvis, rib, and shoulder.
An employee was changing out the wire that goes onto the cutter of a corn machine. The employee's hand slipped off the wire and the wire snapped back and struck their right eye causing a puncture to the eyeball and the bottom eyelid.
An employee was positioning tortillas on a cooling conveyor belt. The machine caught and pulled on his hand, tearing a muscle in his right shoulder. He was hospitalized. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.
An employee was cleaning debris from a tortilla cutter when his left hand contacted the machine, resulting in the partial amputation of the little finger and lacerations to the middle and ring fingers. The machine was not guarded or locked out/tagged out at the time.
A temporary employee turned off a planer machine, opened the housing, and began clearing a jam. The machine's spinning blade caught his right hand and degloved the index finger.
An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.
A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.
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