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Fractures

1 hospitalization · 2022087331 · 8/18/2022 · Wayne Farms LLC

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Upper arm(s)
Nature of injury
Fractures

Cause

Event
Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
Source
Butchering machinery

Employer

Name
Wayne Farms LLC
Location
254 Ipsco Street, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
NAICS
311615
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee was removing meat from a carcass and tossing the meat onto a conveyor. When he reached through the moving cone line to retrieve a misplaced carcass, the carcass/cone caught their upper left arm and rammed it into a COVID-19 barrier pole. The employee's humerus was fractured.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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