Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221439326

REPUBLIC FOODS

Event
Agriculture, Fracture, Meat Processing, Neck, Struck By
NAICS
311412
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345794697
Employer profile
REPUBLIC FOODS
Summary number
221439326
Report ID
0728500

Event description

Employee fractures neck when struck by animal carcass

Investigation abstract

At approximately 10:300 a.m. on February 9, 2022, an employee was cutting a cow snoot to bleed the animal out. Then, the carcass fell onto the worker. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured neck.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 26 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    686

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