Mission Foods Grand Prairie

An employee was hosing down and cleaning a concrete curb machine when the hose got caught and his hand was pulled into the auger of the machine, resulting in fractures and amputations of the right ring and little fingers.

An employee was using a machine to fill bags with birdseed. The employee was clearing a stuck bag under the machine when the bag cutter amputated the employee's fingertip.

A temporary employee was helping an operator remove jammed laminations from a press machine when their right ring finger got pinched between the laminations and the brake of the chute, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee had just serviced a radiator on a concrete machine. During the final check on the machine, the employee was adjusting a hose when a fan caught his right index finger. The finger was amputated at the second knuckle.

Two employees were using a water hose to unclog a heart and liver separator machine. The machine was turned on while one employee's hand was inside it, and an auger under it amputated the tip of his right index finger. He was hospitalized.