Amputations

Name: Amputations at Alatrade Foods, LLC
Start: 9/27/2016

1 amputation · 2016099113 · 9/27/2016 · Alatrade Foods, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
Source: Conveyors-chain
Secondary source: Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves

Employer

Name: Alatrade Foods, LLC
Location: 200 Tyson Drive, ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA, 35950
NAICS: 311615
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was in the cooler taking boxes of chicken off a conveyor when his glove and right ring fingertip were caught in a knuckle chain on the conveyor. The first distal segment of the employee's ring finger was damaged and had to be amputated.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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