Fractures

Name: Fractures at Meyer's Sausage Company
Start: 12/10/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181212668 · 12/10/2018 · Meyer's Sausage Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Arm(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
Source: Meat grinders

Employer

Name: Meyer's Sausage Company
Location: 600 S. Main St., ELGIN, TEXAS, 78621
NAICS: 311612
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was cleaning the two grinders in the grinding room as part of the daily cleaning schedule. The employee was standing on top of stairs at the top of the grinders. The employee slipped and fell, catching his right arm in a grinder. As the employee was trying to right himself, the grinder was activated. The employee sustained multiple fractures to his right arm.

Source

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