Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Smithfield Foods, 3660 North Parkway, CUMMING, GEORGIA 30040
on , Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss, affecting the finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was installing a plate into a food forming machine when the plate slipped and crushed his right ring finger between the plate and the frame, resulting in a soft tissue amputation to the fingertip with a reattachment surgery.
AmputationFinger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)Food and beverage processing machinery n.e.c.