Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Tyson Foods, Inc., 5807 Mitchell Ave., SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI 64507
on , Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries, affecting the finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was holding an actuator valve that was attached to air to keep it open, but it was depressurized and closed on his left middle finger. It amputated the tip of his finger and caused an open avulsion fracture of the last joint and an avulsed fingernail.
AmputationFinger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)Valves, nozzles