Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at SEILER & SON FARMS, LLC, 7711 N US Hwy 441, OCALA, FLORIDA 34475
on — Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the Thumb(s).
Final narrative
An employee was cleaning around the rear part of a peanut washing operation. He was repositioning a shovel when the handle slipped from his hands, and his left hand and right thumb were caught in a chain sprocket on the conveyor. His right thumb was amputated and he sustained lacerations to his left hand. The chains and sprockets were unguarded.
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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