Amputations

Name: Amputations at Marathon Cheese Corporation
Start: 9/20/2017

1 amputation · 2017099017 · 9/20/2017 · Marathon Cheese Corporation

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: Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Marathon Cheese Corporation
Location: 1000 PROGRESSIVE AVE, MEDFORD, WISCONSIN, 54451
NAICS: 424430
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

On September 20, 2017, at approximately 9:00 p.m., an employee was applying anti-caking material to an in-feed incline belt (inside a shredder feed on a conveyor belt) when the employee's left ring finger was caught between the metal idler pulley and the conveyor, amputating the fingertip.

Source

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