SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS—2022-08-08

Cargill, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Avulsions, enucleations

Final narrative

At about 8:40 p.m. on August 8, 2022, an employee was loading a "horn and cone" (a thin stainless steel tube with a cone) with a netting roll. The employee was removing the horn when the netting tail become entangled and wrapped around the wheel and shaft of the brush, which rotated at about 90 revolutions per minute. The employee was trying to remove the netting when their right hand became entangled in it and was pulled into the rotating shaft. The employee suffered a compound fracture to the little finger and a partial degloving.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Butchering machinery

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