Amputations involving bone loss

Name: Amputations involving bone loss at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.
Start: 4/14/2025

1 amputation · 2025043484 · 4/14/2025 · Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.

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 door, gate, window
Source: Doors swinging and sliding
Secondary source: Industrial building

Employer

Name: Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.
Location: 1 sweet applewood lane, CUDAHY, WISCONSIN, 53110
NAICS: 311612
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was standing near a doorway, helping pass a flexible hose through a window when the door closed on his right middle finger. He suffered a non-displaced fracture to the last joint of the finger and a partial amputation through the distal phalanx.

Source

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