Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202567350 - Employee's Clothing Pulls Him into Machinery

Accident Summary Nr: 202567350 -- Report ID: 0352410 -- Event Date: 05/06/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312253487	05/07/2008	2015	311615	Allen Family Foods Inc

Abstract: An employee was working in a chicken-processing plant, placing and scanning product labels on boxes and crates of chicken. The employee stepped backwards away from a pallet of chicken to let a powered pallet jack move between him and the stationary pallet of chicken. His smock caught in an unguarded chain-and-sprocket assembly and wrapped around the square shaft located between the sprockets. The clothing pulled the employee against the chain-and-sprocket assembly, and he received a laceration running from his abdomen to his armpit. The injured employee lost a strip of skin 100 millimeters wide and 150 millimeters long from his abdomen. His right bicep muscle was pulled away from the bone, and he received a severe laceration above his left knee, which caused nerve damage to his left leg. He was hospitalized for his injuries.

Keywords: CHAIN, CLOTHING, ROTATING PARTS, ABDOMEN, LACERATION, SHAFT, SPROCKET, UNGUARDED, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	312253487			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Laborers, except construction

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