Amputations

Name: Amputations at PERDUE FARMS, INC.
Start: 4/14/2015

1 amputation · 2015041985 · 4/14/2015 · PERDUE FARMS, INC.

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Fingertip(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Tables, worktables
Secondary source: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered

Employer

Name: PERDUE FARMS, INC.
Location: 255 N. REHOBOTH BLVD., MILFORD, DELAWARE, 19963
NAICS: 311615
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

A maintenance employee was on his hands and knees extending the legs of a wing segmenter. Another employee bumped her hand truck into a free standing metal table, which then fell and amputated the tip of the maintenance employee's right-hand pinky finger.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown