Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Smithfield Packaged Meat Corporation, 1920 Lacy Dr, JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS 66441
on — Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified, affecting the Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was working to clear plastic film from a packaging machine when she came in contact with a chain, resulting in an amputation to her middle fingertip.
Amputation Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
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