Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-10-21 | Yazoo City | Ms | Federal Correctional Complex Yazoo City | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was operating a slicing machine in a butcher room. The machine lacerated his right thumb and he was hospitalized. | |||||
2021-03-08 | Boise | Id | Albertsons | Skull | Fall on same level due to slipping |
A butcher slipped and fell in the meat cutting room, resulting in a skull fracture. | |||||
2021-02-03 | Greeley | Co | JBS Foods, Inc. | Thigh(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was butchering meat with a knife when the knife punctured his right leg. The employee was hospitalized for surgery. | |||||
2019-02-13 | Creston | Ohio | Ohio Farms Packing Co. LTD | Thigh(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
An employee was cutting a calf hip carcass with a 5-inch butcher knife when the knife slid off of the carcass and impaled the employee's right thigh. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-04-28 | Carpentersville | Illinois | Trim-Rite Food Corporation | Arm(s) | Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker |
On April 28, 2016, at approximately 8:22 a.m., an employee was using a butchering knife to remove the inner and outer shank from a ham. While she was manually turning the meat, the knife came in contact with her left arm above her personal protective equipment, causing a deep laceration and puncture injury. | |||||
2015-02-28 | Eglin Afb | Florida | Defense Commissary Agency(DeCA) | Fingertip(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
Employee was using a band saw in the commissary's butcher shop area to process meat for resale when he amputated the tip of his left thumb. |