Inspection Detail

Case Status: CLOSED

Inspection: 1512600.015 - Pilgrim'S Pride Corporation

Inspection Information - Office: Birmingham Area Office

Inspection Nr: 1512600.015

Report ID: 0418300

Date Opened: 01/27/2021

Site Address:
Pilgrim'S Pride Corporation
2045 Highway 244
Russellville, AL 35654

Mailing Address:
2045 Highway 244, Russellville, AL 35654

Union Status: Union

SIC:

NAICS: 311615/Poultry Processing

Inspection Type: Referral

Scope: Partial

Advanced Notice: N

Ownership: Private

Safety/Health: Safety

Close Conference: 01/27/2021

Emphasis:

Case Closed: 07/22/2021

Related Activity
Type	Activity Nr	Safety	Health
Referral	1722447	Yes

Case Status: CLOSED

Investigation Summary

Investigation Nr: 132885.015

Event: 01/19/2021

Employee incurs multiple injuries when struck by elevator do

At 10:48 p.m. on January 19, 2021, an employee was reaching into a vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC), or full-size freight elevator lift box, to remove packaging supplies. The two #35 master links that connect the chains on each side of the gate to the counterweights failed, and the inner gate fell down onto the employee and knocked her down to the ground. The door bounced back up, then fell back down again onto the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured tibia and fibula, compression fractures to vertebrae, and a collapsed lung.

Keywords: Blind Reaching, Chain, Collapsed lung, Conveyor, Counterweight, Door, E GI VI (blind reaching), Elevator, Equipment Failure, Fibula, Fracture, Gate, Knocked from, Leg, Packaging, Reaching, Reaching In, Removing, Struck By, Tibia, Vertebra

Investigated Inspection
#	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1512600.015	48	F	Hospitalized injury		Miscelaneous food preparation occupations

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