Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-06-05 | Farmerville | La | Foster Farms Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
An employee was unclogging a pump with chicken product. His right hand got caught in the pump, and the index and middle fingertips were amputated. | |||||
2020-06-23 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee fell from a ladder to the concrete floor while performing maintenance work, suffering a head injury. | |||||
2020-02-24 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Flying Jack's Contractors, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
A carpenter was cutting 5-inch shims for a door jam project. While cutting on two saw horses, his saw kicked back and cut his left hand which was holding the wood board. He was hospitalized for a cut to his first and fifth digits and a severed tendon on the first digit that requires surgery. | |||||
2019-06-01 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was climbing down a ladder when a nearby belt and pulley system caught his left hand, causing the amputation of the little finger. | |||||
2019-05-24 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Claiborne Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Brain | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
A crew was cutting trees along a fence line when a branch fell and hit an employee on the back of the head. | |||||
2018-04-12 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster farms | Fingertip(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was repairing a photo sensor on a pallet wrapper. As he was lowering the top plate onto the machine, the plate dropped onto one of his fingers, amputating the fingertip. | |||||
2017-06-09 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Poultry Farms | BODY SYSTEMS | Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less |
An employee received an electric shock while troubleshooting a marinade injector machine. Moisture and water had entered the 220V plug on the side of the machine, causing an instant shock and partial right-side paralysis to the employee. | |||||
2016-01-07 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Brain | Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving |
An employee was injured in a fight and suffered bleeding in the brain. | |||||
2015-07-28 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
Part of an employee's left thumb was amputated while operating a circular saw. | |||||
2015-02-23 | Farmerville | Louisiana | Foster Farms Corporation | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
The employee was working at a production line where breast meat is inspected prior to packaging. The employee reached down and underneath a conveyor belt where her glove was caught in a pinch point, amputating her right index fingertip. The doctor described it as a de-gloving of the fingertip with removal of the bone tip. |