Fractures

Name: Fractures at Seneca Foods Corporation
Start: 9/18/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017098920 · 9/18/2017 · Seneca Foods Corporation

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Harvesting and threshing machinery, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Seneca Foods Corporation
Location: Farm field somewhere in southern Wisconsin, EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53536
NAICS: 311421
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

The lima bean combine harvester was having infeed problems. An employee climbed up on the machine head to observe the problem. The harvester operator was unaware the employee was there and raised the machine head. The employee was struck/pinched by the machine head fracturing three ribs.

Source

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