Boling, TX ·
OSHA Injury Report: Wharton County Foods, LLC.
Injury · Job transfer or restriction
At a glance
On , an injury at Wharton County Foods, LLC. in 4805 FM 422 Rd, Boling, TX 77420 resulted in job transfer or restriction. Employee was production Supervisor in chicken egg production.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Wharton County Foods, LLC.
- Parent company
- Cal-Maine Foods, Incorporated
- Street
- 4805 FM 422 Rd
- City
- Boling
- State
- TX
- ZIP
- 77420
- On-site location
- Farm 1 house 23 row 2 Cage Level 4
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Job transfer or restriction (code 3)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
- Days restricted or transferred
- 7
Before the incident
Production Supervisor [REDACTED] was in [REDACTED] 23 when a feed chain malfunctioned and became jammed in the front drive unit on Row 2 Cage level 5. As a result the designed shear pins broke to prevent further damage to the components. The supervisor decided to repair the rear shear pin in the rear drive prior to repairing the chain malfunction in the front drive unit. According to the Supervisor he climbed up and stood on the 2nd level of the cage systems feed trough straddling the isle with his on two cage rows where he was at eye level of the drive unit opened the front protective guard and reaching behind the drive sprocket to align the pin holes of the sprocket with the drive hub in order to input a new pin and drive out the broken pin from the back of the hub. The Supervisor stated reaching behind the sprocket helped him align the holes and he was able to catch the broken pin as it came out avoiding the pieces falling into the feed line.
What happened
The supervisor states that as he was performing this work the drive sprocket rotated about 1 8 of a turn in the reverse direction entrapping his left middle finger in the pinch point of the sprocket teeth and the upper portion of the chain striper. Unable to free his finger the employee used his radio to get assistance from his Managment team who gathered the required comealongs and maintenance personnel to relieve the tension enabling the Supervisor to free his finger.
Injury or illness
punctures on the outside of his middle finger between the hand and first knuckle
Object or substance involved
Metal chain stripper withing the feed drive that removed debris from the sprocket.
Summary line
Puncture wounds to left middle finger from stuck in between steel chain stripper in feed drive
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Production Supervisor
- SOC code
- 51-1011: First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- NAICS code
- 112310: Chicken egg production
- NAICS vintage
- 2012
- Employees at this establishment (2024 average)
- 184
- Hours worked at this establishment (2024 total)
- 451,279
- EIN
- 461177353
- Establishment ID
- 99124
- Employer case #
- 04
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 07:00
- Time of incident
- 15:40
- Filing year
- 2024
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2025-02-10
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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