Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Amputations involving bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation, 1400 North Weber Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA 57103
on , Amputations involving bone loss, affecting the other finger(s) n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was working as a product tree pusher. He was removing damaged product when his right hand was caught between the head sealer and the bottom seal plate on the form-fill-seal packaging machine. The employee sustained amputations to his little and ring fingers. The machine was not locked out/tagged out or guarded at the time of the incident.