Incident date: 2019-11-04
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was attempting to remove excess onion skins from an onion slicing machine when the slicer blade amputated the employee's fingertip (no bone; only nail and flesh).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Food slicers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high