Swift Beef Company

An employee was working on a pump. When a cap was opened to prime the pump, pressurized steam was released and burned the left side of the employee's body. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was repairing an auger when they sustained an amputation to the distal phalanx of their left index finger.

An employee was adjusting a rolling ladder when it caused an amputation to their right middle fingertip.

An employee was picking trim from a bucket when his right hand became caught in the skinner blade and roller, resulting in injuries to the index finger and thumb.

The injured employee was coming back from break when they got into a physical altercation with a co-worker. The injured employee sustained a bite to their finger, resulting in amputation of their fingertip.

An employee was assisting with the routine care of a rhino when their right thumb became caught between a pipe fence and the rhino. The thumb was amputated to the first joint.

An employee was reversing cattle when their left middle finger got caught between a cow and a hold-back gate, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

A team was sorting and loading wild horses onto trucks to be shipped to a new location and a gelding that had injured itself was being moved to a single pen. That horse then came back over the top of the employee who was working with it, striking them in the back and launching them approximately 8 feet into the air. This caused him to strike his face on a corral panel. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was delivering mail when she was knocked to the concrete ground by dogs, resulting in lacerations to her head and neck. She was hospitalized.

An employee was scraping dried glue from the top lid of a hot glue pot. His left hand slipped and came into contact with the hot glue. He then suffered burns to his hands and fingers as he tried to remove the glue. He was hospitalized.

An employee was in a scissor lift approximately 20 feet above the ground to place a plastic tarp on a catwalk in order to catch condensation. They positioned the lift opposite the work area and stepped out of the scissor lift onto an I-beam. The employee fell from the I-beam to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a skull fracture on the right side of their head and injuries to the chest and both eyes.

A maintenance employee was called to look at a pallet conveyor machine where a chain had fallen off a sprocket wheel. When the employee grabbed the loose chain, a light sensor caused the machine to restart. This created a pinch point between the chain and sprocket that caught the employee's left little finger. The finger was surgically amputated at the second knuckle.

The injured employee was standing by one of the stationary computers along the wall. There was a half-pallet located approximately 3 feet behind the employee that consisted of 12-pound boxes stacked six boxes high. A forklift was transporting a pallet that came in contact with the stationary pallet behind the injured employee, causing four boxes to fall and contact their legs. The injured employee was hospitalized with leg injuries.

An employee was using a box strapping machine to place straps on boxes when his right middle finger was caught in the machine, resulting in an open fracture to the distal phalanx.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.