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, 2323 S Sheridan, WICHITA, KANSAS 67213
on , Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss, affecting the other finger(s) n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was tearing down a sausage-linking machine as part of a weekly pipe clean out. As the meat piled up on the machine, he went to clean the meat off the top of the machine. The metering gears contacted his left index finger, resulting in a soft tissue fingertip amputation.
AmputationOther finger(s) n.e.c.Food and beverage processing machinery n.e.c.