Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dakota Turkey Growers, L.L.C., 40253 US Highway 14, HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA 57350
on , Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was performing maintenance on a breast skinner with another employee and had opened a magnetic interlock door to halt the machine's operation. The other employee held a wrench close to the interlock and the machine engaged, pulling the maintenance employee's right hand between a sprocket and chain. The employee suffered a pinky finger amputation and partial ring finger amputation. The machine was energized at the time of the incident.