Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sargento Foods Inc, N5279 Co Rd G, SAINT CLOUD, WISCONSIN 53079
on — Fractures , affecting the Forearm(s).
Final narrative
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.
Hospitalized Forearm(s) Special process machinery unspecified
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