| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-20 | Hamburg | Pennsylvania | JOE JURGIELEWICZ & SON LTD. | Multiple body parts | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
| An employee was using a metal pipe with 1/2-inch tines to scrape the feathers off the side of a dryer. The force of the spinning dryer caught the pipe, which impaled the employee in the upper chest and passed through his shoulder. The force then pulled out the pipe and knocked off the lid of the dryer, sending the employee to the floor. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-09-26 | Seguin | Texas | Tyson Foods Inc. | Multiple body parts | Contact with hot objects or substances |
| An employee was standing on a feather deck platform checking the feather meal when a coworker opened the wrong feather cooker door. The heat from the open door caused second and third degree burns to the employee's right arm, face, and back. | |||||
| 2017-04-17 | Gainesville | Georgia | Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., LTD. (LLC) | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was cleaning the quill puller (defeathering machine) with water and amputated the right pinky finger. The machine was not locked out at the time. | |||||
| 2017-04-10 | Bastrop | Texas | Darling Ingredients Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
| An employee was clearing the hydrolyzer when backpressure caused hot feathers to discharge onto the employee. As the employee moved out of the way, he fell six feet breaking a bone over his left eye and suffering first and second degree burns to the hands, arms, face and neck. | |||||
| 2015-10-16 | Mason | Ohio | Down Lite | Foot (feet) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| On or about October 16, 2016, while operating the feather press machine, the employee's foot was smashed. | |||||