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Cargill

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning — Amputations — SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA

AMPUTATION — Worker suffered amputation at Cargill in SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA
Employer Cargill Report ID 2016010799
Address 490 Rd. 9 City, State ZIP SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA 68661
Event Date January 27, 2016 Outcome Amputation
Nature of Injury Amputations Body Part Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Event Type Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning Source of Injury Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
Industry (NAICS) 311612 Inspection # 1124867
GPS Coordinates 41.43000, -97.09000

Incident Narrative

An employee reached for a box that was jammed in the ground beef burger tray former machine. When he removed the box, the machine started and pulled his hand into a chain resulting in a partial amputation of the right ring finger.

Incident Summary

On January 27, 2016, a worker at Cargill in SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA suffered amputations to the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified. The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning, with food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c. identified as the source of injury. The worker was amputation.

Context

OSHA has recorded 5,298 severe injury reports involving "Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning" incidents in our database. Browse all Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning injuries.

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