Amputations

Name: Amputations at Shearers Foods
Start: 7/28/2016

1 amputation · 2016076910 · 7/28/2016 · Shearers Foods

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Special process machinery, unspecified

Employer

Name: Shearers Foods
Location: 3203 Avenue B, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79404
NAICS: 311919
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was working on the rollers after the tipper belt on a machine and was replacing a band on the drive shaft. He was trying to get the new band on the drive shaft when his right thumb tip was amputated. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

Source

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