Frozen Food Manufacturing

NarrativeAt 11:30 a.m. on January 23, 2018, an employee was moving product in a freezer with a forklift. The forklift struck unprotected refrigeration piping, breaking a valve and releasing anhydrous ammonia. The employee's face, eyes, and chest were exposed to the anhydrous ammonia and the employee was hospitalized.

NarrativeAt 11:45 p.m. on November18, 2017, an employee who worked in a frozen vegetable processing plant was fixing the conveyor as it was not pushing empty totes to the side as it was supposed to. The employee removed the outside guard of the machine that covered the chain and sprocket drive system and then removed one of the two chains under the guard. The conveyor moved as the employee began removing the second chain and caught two of his left hands middle fingers in the chain and sprocket of the drive system. The employee was hospitalized and had two fingers amputated.

NarrativeAt 2:30 a.m. on November 9, 2017, an employee was working for a firm that provided sanitation services for food processing plants across the United States and Canada. He was working at a food processing plant owned by a firm that produced specialty frozen foods. He was watching a worker for the firm that owned the processing plant clean a press mixer. Though not authorized, the employee, for some reason, decided to clean the press mixer. The tip of the ring finger on his right hand was amputated by the press mixers rotating augur. The narrative did not say whether or not he was hospitalized.