OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221425473

TYSON FOODS, INC.

SOUTH HUTCHINSON, KS· 2021-12-28T00:00:00

Event: Air Pressure, Amputated, Amputation, Caught In, Engineering Controls, Finger, Fingertip, Food processing, High Pressure, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lockout, Lockout/Tagout, Maintenance, Meat Grinder, Meat Processing, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Partial Amputation, Pinched, Pulled In, Troubleshooting
NAICS: 311612
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345715189
Employer profile: TYSON FOODS, INC.
Summary number: 221425473
Report ID: 0729700

Event description

Employee amputates fingertip while repairing energized machi

Investigation abstract

At 3:00 p.m. on December 28, 2021, an employee was troubleshooting the bone his finger, amputating his fingertip and requiring hospitalization. eliminator portion of a final meat grinding machine which was not pushing the bone out as designed. The employee was attempting to determine whether the air valve was not working, if the bone eliminator was not working, or if there was an open hole in the airline. The employee had not locked out/tagged out the machine. Instead, the employee told a coworker to shut the valve off. As the coworker tryed to shut the valve off, the employee, thinking the valve was already shut off, held onto the end of a piston and tried to push it back in when it activated, retracted and pulled his finger inside. The employee crushed

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
549

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