Amputations involving bone loss

Name: Amputations involving bone loss at Mountaire Farms of Delaware
Start: 2/15/2024

1 amputation · 2024021433 · 2/15/2024 · Mountaire Farms of Delaware

Severity

Hospitalized: 0
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Other finger(s) n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Amputations involving bone loss

Cause

Event: Struck by running powered equipment unspecified
Source: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
Secondary source: Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name: Mountaire Farms of Delaware
Location: 29006 John J. Williams Highway, MILLSBORO, DELAWARE, 19966
NAICS: 311615
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was straightening the bag liner that was in the sealing bars of an automated packaging machine when the machine activated and amputated their left middle finger.

Source

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