Incident date: 2019-01-15
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was trying to push a bar that had jammed the chain and the sprockets of a plate freezer machine when his left first finger was caught between the chain and sprockets, resulting in an amputation of his finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high