Amputations

Name: Amputations at New Angus, LLC
Start: 5/14/2018

1 amputation · 2018054666 · 5/14/2018 · New Angus, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
Source: Butchering machinery

Employer

Name: New Angus, LLC
Location: 13 135th Street South West, ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57401
NAICS: 311611
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was checking a side puller to see whether a contractor had sanitized it when the machine actuated while his hand was inside. His left hand was caught in the side puller, amputating portions of his index, middle, and ring fingers. The side puller was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.

Source

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