Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin
Start: 12/30/2016

1 hospitalization · 20161212041 · 12/30/2016 · Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified

Employer

Name: Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin
Location: 2200 Enterprise Avenue, LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, 54603
NAICS: 311513
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing sanitation duties on a machine. The employee removed piping to clean a valve inside. The air source to the machine was not locked out. While cleaning the valve, it actuated and caught her finger. She was hospitalized and the finger may be amputated.

Source

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