Incident date: 2024-08-24
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was clearing strips of plastic that had jammed in a dicer. The blade caught the employee's cut-resistant glove, pulling their hand into the cutter and amputating the tips of their right ring and little fingers. The fingertips were reattached at the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high