Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221464498

ZOET POULTRY INC.

Event
Caught In, Cleaning, Finger, Food processing, Glove, Partial Amputation, Pulley
NAICS
112310
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345978134
Employer profile
ZOET POULTRY INC.
Summary number
221464498
Report ID
0552652

Event description

Employee partially amputates fingers when caught by cable dr

Investigation abstract

At 10:45 a.m. on December 3, 2021, an employee was cleaning dust from the frame of the conveyor belt of a running Tecno Egg Collection System. When employee rested their right hand near the system's cable drive, the employee's glove was caught by the running machinery and their right hand was dragged around the cable drive pulley. The employee sustained a partial amputation at the first knuckle to the right pinky and ring fingers and was treated without hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 71 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    479

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