Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Name: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Smithfield Foods
Start: 6/30/2025

1 hospitalization · 2025066262 · 6/30/2025 · Smithfield Foods

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Cause

Event: Struck by suspended or swinging objects n.e.c.
Source: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
Secondary source: Butchering machinery

Employer

Name: Smithfield Foods
Location: 2223 Industrial Road, CRETE, NEBRASKA, 68333
NAICS: 311611
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was applying spreader hooks to hogs. A hog fell from the hook that he was holding upright and the hook lacerated a tendon in his left hand. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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