Amputations involving bone loss

Name: Amputations involving bone loss at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation
Start: 2/27/2025

1 amputation · 2025021903 · 2/27/2025 · Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation

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 during maintenance, cleaning, testing
Source: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
Secondary source: Machine guards

Employer

Name: Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation
Location: 1400 North Weber Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57103
NAICS: 311611
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was working as a product tree pusher. He was removing damaged product when his right hand was caught between the head sealer and the bottom seal plate on the form-fill-seal packaging machine. The employee sustained amputations to his little and ring fingers. The machine was not locked out/tagged out or guarded at the time of the incident.

Source

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