OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221395908

SANDERSON FARMS, INC. PROCESSING DIVISION

TYLER, TX· 2021-09-22T00:00:00

Event: Amputated, Amputation, Blind Reaching, Finger, Food processing, Hand, Instantaneous amputation, Machine Guarding, Manufacturing, Meat Processing, Reaching, Traumatic Amputation
NAICS: 311615
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345550479
Employer profile: SANDERSON FARMS, INC. PROCESSING DIVISION
Summary number: 221395908
Report ID: 0626300

Event description

Employee amputates finger in poultry processing machine

Investigation abstract

At 12:45 a.m. on September 22, 2021, an employee working for a poultry processing facility was working on line 2 in the cut-up department hanging chicken. The employee reached over to line 1 around the guard to remove a bird that was stuck in the breast processing area. The employee caught his right index finger in the machine. The employee received medical treatment without hospitalization for an amputated finger.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 20 M

Event type
2

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